[Taxacom] Open review as a wiki

[Donat Agosti]

One way around ms names is, that Zoobank, and hopefully the other domains,
decide that names are only valid if they are accompanied with a citation of
a publication that shows up on the Internet. I would even go a step ahead,
that names are only available (in the nomenclatorial sense), and can be
checked out, if the descriptions are on systems like plazi, where the names
in the descriptions are marked up and enhanced with LSIDs from the
respective ICNs official name servers.

Donat


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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Kirk
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Open review as a wiki

So will a few more 'phantom names' make a difference ... I think not ...
the proposed Global Names Architecture linked to the base nomenclators
will deal with these issues.

Your example is not the only error in 1.2million species names in the
CoL - is anything with this amount of data error free?

Most of the last few posts to this subject are still thinking in a 'two
dimensional way' ... publishing, manuscrips, generic revision, review
(in a formal way) ... these are foreign concepts to cybertaxonomy ...
not wishing to scare folks away.

Paul

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What about the issue of manuscript names becoming visible on the
internet? 
Wouldn't they add to the heavy load of "phantom names" (data entry
misspellings, collection label names, etc.) that already made their way
into online databases? 

Just one of so many examples: 
"Somatrichus" is a subsequent misspelling of Somotrichus.
It may have first occurred in the NODC database, was harvested from
there by ITIS, from where it went to uBio, Species2000, GBIF,
ZipCodeZoo, etc. A search via Google now reveals several more usage
instances, we can search it via iSpecies, it has got it's own LSIDs in
uBio and Species2000, flagged as "accepted name" without reference to
the correct name Somotrichus, which itself is treated as a different
accepted name in all those databases....

How can we avoid that MS names will escape in the same way?
Are not projects like ZooBank (official registers taking care of the
"nomenclatural realm") the first priority steps when we talk about
setting up things like standard classifications or open-access review
mechanisms?

Cheers,
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Lorenz
Faunistics & Environmental Planning
Hoermannstr. 4
D-82327 Tutzing, Germany


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