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Question about italics for botanical scientific names. #30

Closed suwiding closed 7 years ago

suwiding commented 8 years ago

@rdmpage I've been given thousands of good citations for Phytologia, ISSN 0031-9430, from the Index of American Botanical Literature. There's a potential for many more citations from this source. In the csv files that I received from the system administrator (EMU at NYBG), the article titles contain mark-up to cause scientific names to be presented on the UI in italics as they should be. For example, I was given: A new variety of <Astragalus hyalilnus> (Fabaceae) from Wyoming
Italics are used when this is displayed in IABL. See http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/iabl/iabl_details.php?irn=468377 In BHL: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/184351 In BioStor: http://biostor.org/reference/175861

In BioStor and BHL, it seems that we have no way to display marked up text in italics. Is this true? I can easily strip out this markup using a regular expression and OpenRefine but it seems a shame to do so. A subject matter expert (NYBG botanist) did a lot of work to markup the scientific names and it's the right thing to do. If I discard the markup now we'll probably never get it back... I'd very much like your advice on this.

rdmpage commented 8 years ago

@suwiding I suggest keeping the markup. Is it in HTML form (e.g., Astragalus hyalilnus) or which is non-standard. I've ignored formatting to date in BioStor, but could incorporate it if desired. I agree that there's no point removing markup that adds value.