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Darwin Core standard for sharing of information about biological diversity.
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multiple vernacular names for a taxon? #503

Closed wouteraddink closed 8 months ago

wouteraddink commented 8 months ago

looking at https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:vernacularName it seems to allow for only one name, should it not allow for a list of names since one taxon can have multiple vernacular names?

qgroom commented 8 months ago

There is a DwC extension to add multiple vernacular names, and it allows for their language to be given. Otherwise you might end up with multiple names, but you don't know what languages they are in. @matdillen used the extension in thise dataset https://www.gbif.org/dataset/a0b06e2e-287a-4687-8a6c-2c0cfb31c16d

wouteraddink commented 8 months ago

Aah yes, I forgot about that extension.