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include verbatimIdentification in section Taxonomy and identification #78

Closed ymgan closed 6 months ago

ymgan commented 10 months ago

Suggest to update practices in the following section into the one mentioned by @albenson-usgs in https://github.com/gbif/pipelines/issues/217#issuecomment-1697742126

Current wordings can be improved: https://github.com/gbif/pipelines/issues/217#issuecomment-1696955896

Page: https://manual-dev.obis.org/darwin_core.html#taxonomy-and-identification

2.4.1.3.1 Taxonomy and identification

scientificName (required term) should always contain the originally recorded scientific name, even if the name is currently a synonym. This is necessary to be able to track back records to the original dataset.