suggest to include authorship in scientificName in OBIS recommendation

[ymgan]

I would like to suggest an amendment for current recommendation on scientificName on this page https://manual.obis.org/darwin_core.html#taxonomy-and-identification:

We recommend to not include authorship in scientificName, and only use scientificNameAuthorship for that purpose.

I would like to suggest to explicitly include authorship in the scientificName with the following reasons:

1. Follow the Darwin Core standard. The definition explicitly says

The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known.

2. The reviewers of data paper from our data providers are consistently requesting us to include authorship in the scientificName when we submitted the data based on OBIS recommendation (i.e. excluding authorship in scientificName and having them in scientificNameAuthorship). This has happened numerous times. This recommendation is creating more work for us and our data providers.

3. I also have some data providers with marine data who read Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide (https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:scientificName), providing data based the guide where they explicitly include authorship in the scientificName field according to the definition. I don't have a good argument to tell them not to follow the standard and opt for OBIS recommendation.

[pieterprovoost]

Thanks @ymgan, I'll check if there are any implications for data processing and then see if there are any objections from the SG before changing the recommendation.

[JohnNichollsTCD]

This looks like a sensible suggestion, but I would like to clarify that it will still be acceptable for us to use scientificNameAuthorship for author details if needed.

[pieterprovoost]

@JohnNichollsTCD Yes absolutely, it's fine to keep using scientificNameAuthorship but it's preferred to include the authorship in scientificName as well.

[JohnNichollsTCD]

Thanks @pieterprovoost!

[EliLawrence]

I've updated the recommendation for scientificName on the Manual to include authorship so I will close this issue now