[Tcs-lc] type scientific redundant?

Richard Pyle deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Tue Mar 29 02:43:18 PST 2005


> I am not entirely sure about boolean... Did you look at the virus
> names? They
> are really different, look like vernaculars, and the meaning of
> "scientific" is
> really different there. Any virus people out there?

Good point -- but I think that viruses do have separate (unique)
"scientific" names, separate from "popular" names.  But I don't really know
for sure.

> It is not really orthographic variant, but name under different
> rules.

But it's the same "name" -- the only difference of the different Codes has
to do with priority decisions between names, authorships, etc. -- all
secondary attributes of the names.  Not enough to think of them as separate
name-objects.

> We need to model this perhaps, at the moment I am confused myself
> how to handle
> the variants in the name-part-without-citation and the whole name-with
> citation. Both are relevant.

Yes -- that's a part we still need to sort our (names with authors vs. names
without authors).

Rich




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