Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
Original comment by peter.de...@gmail.com
on 9 Feb 2012 at 9:28
Thinking about this a little bit, I think the best way to see scientificName
is: Provide all the information you have about that scientific name string in
your database, within limits of your database (e.g. if you only have a
scientificNameWithoutAuthor field and a scientificNameAuthor field and you
cannot concatenate, so be it).
So, scientificName is: genus + species + speciesAuthor + " subsp. " +
subspecies + subspeciesAuthor + " var. " + variety + varietyAuthor, and so on.
Some of these parts cannot be provided anywhere else but in the scientificName.
In the example above that would be speciesAuthor, subspecies &
subspeciesAuthor. Having nice searchable names is not the goal of
scientificName. For that we have genus + specificEpithet + infraspecificEpithet
+ scientificNameAuthorship and if those are not provided, we can still parse
the scientificName.
If you agree, I'll change the way we publish our names and suggest this to the
Canadensys community and in AppleCore.
Original comment by peter.de...@gmail.com
on 9 Feb 2012 at 10:12
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
peter.de...@gmail.com
on 9 Feb 2012 at 9:27