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How to store new species #21

Open rubenpp7 opened 4 years ago

rubenpp7 commented 4 years ago

WoRMS does not include a species name unless it has been published. What happens to new species whose name has not yet been published?

Some data providers have described several new species (and more to come) and have assigned them an interim scientificName, I guess we can:

  1. store this interim scientificName and add relevant information in identificationRemarks, the field scientificNameID would be created once the name is published and included in WorMS. Maybe we could also add the field identificationVerificationStatus, although I am not sure if it corresponds.

  2. wait until the species has been described and published

What do you think?

pieterprovoost commented 4 years ago

I prefer approach 1, I don't think there's a reason to leave out data even if it's still incomplete. These new names will show up in the "non matching names" list which may be interesting for WoRMS as well, especially for data not flowing through EurOBIS.

We have datasets using identificationVerificationStatus as a quality control flag, I'm not sure if it's useful for this case.