[SEEK-Taxon] some concerns about the mammal data uploaded by Trevor

[xianhual@email.unc.edu]

Jessie,

Yes, I'd like to spend some time cleaning up these duplications and parsing
the page numbers out from publications. I will try to get to it as soon as
possible.

Xianhua

Quoting "Kennedy, Jessie" <J.Kennedy at napier.ac.uk>:

> Hi Xianhua
>
>>
>> I went through the mammal data Trevor created and thank him
>> for his great job
>> before moving. I just found something I am not very sure with.
>>
>> Firstly, different pages in the same publication have been treated as
>> different publications. See an example as following,
>>
>> <Publication id="MSW_PUB5473"> <PublicationSimple>Ann. Mag.
>> Nat. Hist., ser.
>> 8, 10:396.</PublicationSimple> </Publication>
>> <Publication id="MSW_PUB5474"> <PublicationSimple>Ann. Mag.
>> Nat. Hist., ser.
>> 8, 10:397.</PublicationSimple> </Publication>
>> <Publication id="MSW_PUB5432"> <PublicationSimple>Ann. Mag.
>> Nat. Hist., ser.
>> 8, 10:399.</PublicationSimple> </Publication>
>>
>>
>> I wonder if it is better to treated them as one publication
>> 'Ann. Mag. Nat.
>> Hist., ser. 8, 10' with differenct microreference of pages -
>> 396,397 and 399
>> respectively. This might be the use of TCS the way it has been
>> designed.
>>
> yes this was how it was desinged and it would be better - this was 
> only Trevor trying to automate the conversion - the only way to 
> change this would be manually based on the data format we had - so if 
> you can - making these changes would be more accurate.... thanks
>
>> Additionally, there are some duplications in the publications.
>> See examples as
>> following,
>>
>> example 1:
>>
>> <Publication id="MSW_PUB5479"> <PublicationSimple>Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool.
>> (Paris), ser. 5, 7:375.</PublicationSimple> </Publication>
>> <Publication id="MSW_PUB5480"> <PublicationSimple>Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool.
>> (Paris), ser. 5, 7:375.</PublicationSimple> </Publication>
>>
>> example 2:
>>
>> <Publication id="MSW_PUB5481"> <PublicationSimple>David, Nouv.
>> Arch. Mus.
>> Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull. for 1871, 7(4):92 [1872].</PublicationSimple>
>> </Publication>
>> <Publication id="MSW_PUB5482"> <PublicationSimple>David, Nouv.
>> Arch. Mus.
>> Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull. for 1871, 7(4):92 [1872].</PublicationSimple>
>> </Publication>
>>
>
> yes they shouldn't be there.......
>
>>
>> Before we import the data into SEEK database for further
>> processing, we'd
>> better re-check the data and make it as clean as possible.
>
>
> with Trevor having gone would you be able to do this? is this ok Bob?
>
> any problems we're happy to discuss...
>
> thanks,
>
> Jessie
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