The document discusses an interdisciplinary collaboration between linguistics and biology to map scientific taxon names to common names in multiple languages. It describes projects including the WBÖ and DBÖ dialect dictionaries, Europeana, and OpenUp!, which aims to provide biological and linguistic metadata. The collaboration would benefit both partners by integrating linguistic expertise on names into the OpenUp! project and biological expertise on taxa into the dictionaries. Web services would be developed to link the two domains and allow bidirectional exchange of data to handle unstable scientific classifications. The goal is to lay foundations for distributed expertise, standards, and open access to linguistic and biological data on taxa names.