include canonical taxon name in the download

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Reporter: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: include canonical taxon name in the download
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2013-11-22 23:29:51.966
Updated: 2015-03-10 10:58:42.75
Resolved: 2015-03-10 10:58:42.732
        
Description: Scott Chamberlain  via email:

I'm curious if it may be possible for you to include canonical taxon names in the output of occurrence endpoints?  I could make calls to the name parser, but that's a lot of overhead if you have a lot of names to parse.

Thanks! Scott]]>
    

Author: trobertson@gbif.org
Comment: I don't know what we should do here... some occurrences come with canonicals (see the tinyurl.com/dwcUse spreadsheet) but I am not sure we want to blindly apply them with joins through scientific names.  They are so localised in nature that unless the location of the occurrence is taken into consideration, this becomes very dubious.  I'd suggest we need to do some data analysis before proceeding to commit to this.
Created: 2013-11-24 13:46:01.565
Updated: 2013-11-24 13:46:01.565

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: [~trobertson@gbif.org], did you mean vernaculars? Scott was asking for canonical scientific names, i.e. cleaned and without the authorship. That should be easily possible in all parsable cases (excluding hybrids)
Created: 2013-11-25 23:56:26.957
Updated: 2013-11-25 23:56:26.957

Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: I think this is the same issue he emailed about, namely that in his occurrence api lookups, sci name comes back with authority. That was a bug in the nub lookup, so when I ran the interpretation across all records all sci names now have authorship because of the bug. Markus fixed the bug yesterday and now it's up to me to rerun the processing for all records to get sci name straight. I'm in touch with scott about this.
Created: 2013-11-27 15:29:22.235
Updated: 2013-11-27 15:29:22.235