Plant specimens seem wrongly indexed as animals

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Reporter: bko
Assignee: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Plant specimens seem wrongly indexed as animals
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-06-26 16:40:59.838
Updated: 2014-06-26 21:52:09.511
        
Description: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/1b412457-43cf-4a6f-b5c2-7acf01be5977/stats

According to the data publisher, this dataset contains only plant specimens but our indexing seems to link them to Animalia. Randomly pick Sabia parviflora and Tibetia yunnanensis and search shows they are indeed plantae species and are described in Flora of China. Is this something we can fix?]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2014-06-26 21:50:50.761
Updated: 2014-06-26 21:50:50.761
        
Indeed a bad classification in our backbone. The species comes from IPNI which should definitely be a plant species:
http://www.gbif.org/species/7268473

Hope we can fix this in our next generation nub building later this summer
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2014-06-26 21:52:09.511
Updated: 2014-06-26 21:52:09.511
        
Using the plant list for index building would also be great:
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-28200246

Maybe [~jlegind@gbif.org] can ask them to publish the data as a darwin core archive?