Richard L. Pyle

@rdmpage @mdoering : On the uuid thing; well... we're just going to have to agree to disagree. Especially in taxonomy, we already have the "identifier" that is human-friendly (it's the...

Of course, the moment after I posted that last note, I realized I was late for my first (of many) Zoom meetings for the day, so coding got delayed. However,...

One other note: there are some data quality issues due to how the users enter data in a messy way. For example, the DOI is properly stored in the database...

Thanks, @rdmpage > Given that this is the delimiter between the namespace name and the property you need to keep them, for example, http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier (= dc:identifier) and http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Description (= ref:Description)....

My interpretation of `originalNameUsage` in this case is that it should represent the original combination of the secondary homonym, not the senior homonym. DwC `Taxon` terms are not sufficient to...

The word "name" by itself usually causes more confusion than clarity in these kinds of conversations. Everytime we try to pin down a "clean" definition of "name", it usually isn't...

Thanks, Markus. Yes, for the Class1 Namestrings, the UTF8 string itself is, by definition, unique. Dima creates hashed UUID values from the strings themselves, and these can be useful for...

This is EXCELLENT! And EXACTLY what is needed, in my opinion! @rdmpage -- have you and @dimus compared systems for clustering names? Massive duplications also exist among literature citations (including...

@dremsen and @rdmpage : Index Animalium represents the **PERFECT** example of what I'm talking about. There are 7,723 literature citations in the combined bibliography, and 429,829 TNUs (approximately 350K Protonyms)....

Understood, and agreed! I just wanted to use @dremsen suggestion of Sherborn to illustrate the point made earlier. Also, we already have zillions of sources of names. There is no...