Delivered to Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria meeting workshop in Montreal, QC on Saturday, June 14, 2014 on use of scientific names in collections.

1. Have We Got the Names “Right”?
Why, Geekery & Logistics
David P. Shorthouse

4. Cryptantha celosioides (Eastwood) Payson
cock’s-comb cryptantha
©2011 Ryan Batten

5. Cryptantha nubigena var. celosioides (Eastwood) B. Boivin

6. Hemihomonyms
« If two different species, genera or other taxons have the same
name, this name is a homonym. Homonyms are illegal if they
belong to the same code of nomenclature. If same name belongs
to different codes, it is a hemihomonym (Starobogatov, 1991). »

7. Pieris spp.
Pieris japonica
Pieris rapae

9. Darwin Core Terms
taxonID | scientificNameID | acceptedNameUsageID | parentNameUsageID |
originalNameUsageID | nameAccordingToID | namePublishedInID | taxonConceptID |
scientificName | acceptedNameUsage | parentNameUsage | originalNameUsage |
nameAccordingTo | namePublishedIn | namePublishedInYear | higherClassification |
kingdom | phylum | class | order | family | genus | subgenus | specificEpithet |
infraspecificEpithet | taxonRank | verbatimTaxonRank | scientificNameAuthorship |
vernacularName | nomenclaturalCode | taxonomicStatus | nomenclaturalStatus |
taxonRemarks
Identity, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, Taxon Concepts

10. Identification

11. scientificName
« The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if
known. When forming part of an Identification, this should be the
name in lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined. This
term should not contain identification qualifications, which should
instead be supplied in the identificationQualifier term. »
Coleoptera
Ctenomys sociabilis
Quercus agrifolia var. oxyadenia (Torr.) J.T. Howell

12. identifiedBy
« A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups,
or organizations who assigned the Taxon to the subject. »

13. scientificNameID
« An identifier for the nomenclatural (not taxonomic) details of a
scientific name. »
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37829-1:1.3

14. identificationQualifier
« A brief phrase or a standard term ("cf.", "aff.") to express the
determiner's doubts about the Identification. »
1. For the determination Quercus aff. agrifolia var. oxyadenia,
identificationQualifier would be "aff. agrifolia var. oxyadenia" with
accompanying values "Quercus" in genus, "agrifolia" in specificEpithet,
"oxyadenia" in infraspecificEpithet, and "var." in rank.
1. For the determination Quercus agrifolia cf. var. oxyadenia, identificationQualifier
would be "cf. var. oxyadenia " with accompanying values "Quercus" in genus,
"agrifolia" in specificEpithet, "oxyadenia" in infraspecificEpithet, and "var." in
rank.

15. genus
subgenus
specificEpithet
subspecificEpithet
scientificNameAuthorship

16. Nomenclature

17. « The status related to the original publication of the name and its
conformance to the relevant rules of nomenclature. It is based
essentially on an algorithm according to the business rules of the
code. It requires no taxonomic opinion.»
nomenclaturalStatus
nom. ambig., nom. illeg., nom. subnud.
nomenclaturalCode

18. « A reference for the publication in which the scientificName was
originally established under the rules of the associated
nomenclaturalCode. »
namePublishedIn
namePublishedInID
namePublishedInYear

19. originalNameUsage
« The taxon name, with authorship and date information if known,
as it originally appeared when first established under the rules of
the associated nomenclaturalCode. The basionym (botany) or
basonym (bacteriology) of the scientificName or the senior/earlier
homonym for replaced names. »

20. Taxonomy

21. acceptedNameUsage
« The full name, with authorship and date information if known, of
the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) taxon. »

22. Classification
higherClassification
kingdom
phylum
class
order
family
parentNameUsage
parentNameUsageID
taxonomicStatus

23. Taxon Concepts
nameAccordingTo
nameAccordingToID
taxonConceptID
class
order
family

25. Darwin Core Extensions
Darwin Core Identification History
identificationID | identifiedBy | dateIdentified | identificationReferences |
identificationRemarks | identificationQualifier | identificationVerificationStatus |
typeStatus | taxonID | taxonConceptID | scientificName | scientificNameID |
namePublishedIn | namePublishedInYear | namePublishedInID | nameAccordingTo |
nameAccordingToID | acceptedNameUsage | parentNameUsage | originalNameUsage |
higherClassification | kingdom | phylum | class | order | family | genus | subgenus |
specificEpithet | infraspecificEpithet | taxonRank | verbatimTaxonRank |
scientificNameAuthorship | vernacularName | nomenclaturalCode | taxonomicStatus |
nomenclaturalStatus | taxonRemarks

26. Where Is there More Help?
TDWG Listserv
Taxacom Listserv
Canadensys Google Group

27. So Where/How Do We Start?

28. http://iphylo.blogspot.ca/2012/02/using-google-refine-and-taxonomic.html

29. http://www.canadensys.net/refine/

30. Let’s Get Organized…