property: emendationOf

[nielsklazenga]

emendationOf (property)

Identifier	http://rs.tdwg.org/tcs/terms/spellingCorrectionOf
Type	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property
Label	Spelling correction of
	required: No — repeatable: Yes
Definition	Name for which this name is an emendation
Usage	emendationOf is another Taxon Name object

Mapping

TCS 1	DataSet/TaxonNames/TaxonName/SpellingCorrectionOf
TDWG Ontology	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName#SpellingCorrection

[nielsklazenga]

I totally overlooked this element in TCS 1, there is not even an issue for it, but I now like to propose the term spellingCorrectionOf for immediate inclusion in TCS 2.

The thing that made me look for this is the name 'Dicranoloma dicarpon' (https://www.tropicos.org/name/35121514). Dicranoloma dicarpon is an often reported moss in Australia and New Zealand. For the last 120 years, it has been consistently called 'Dicranoloma dicarpum'. I myself have used that spelling in a few publications. Only this weekend, I noticed that the spelling of the epithet in Tropicos had been changed to 'dicarpon'. Annoyingly, whoever did that was right to do so. I have now also changed it in AusMoss, and I can change it in our Collection Management System, but for the forseeable future, most occurrence records will come in under the name 'Dicranoloma dicarpum'. Also, the moss names in Catalogue of Life are from a world checklist from 1999. So, we need a way to tell that 'Dicranoloma dicarpum' and 'Dicranoloma dicarpon' are the same name. This property will do that.

[nielsklazenga]

The mention of the presence of the term 'emendation' in the Zoological Code in #36 (comment) makes me wonder if I have interpreted the term spellingCorrectionOf correctly and if it was not intended to be used with these emendations and is actually meant to be an 'emendation of'.

If that is the case, the examples I have provided are inappropriate, as I have used spellingCorrectionOf to deal with orthographic variants (and I can think of better ways to deal with orthographic variants). The 'emendation' from the Zoological Code seems like a nomenclatural act that creates a different name. In botany, I would say that a spelling correction does not create a new name, which is why I am having so much trouble with spellingCorrectionOf (not with the concept, but with implementing it in a useful way).

@deepreef and/or @jliljeblad , could you shed your light on this?

[nielsklazenga]

I am quite keen on restricting the use of spellingCorrectionOf to these emendations sensu the Zoological Code, as that leaves the door open for a orthographicVariantOf property, which I think is much more useful to deal with orthographic variants.

[nielsklazenga]

This term needs a champion. And it should relate to something in one (or more) of the Codes, e.g. emendations in the ICZN. Otherwise we should leave it out, as this is not the best way to deal with orthographic errors/variants.

[jliljeblad]

Agree with you, Niels. Just because something is spelled differently, it can be difficult to know if it is intentional or not. Better to leave this for explicit emendations. I guess, however that orthographic variants can be of several kinds. Some spelling variants are simply variants such as abbreviations of the genus or use of ¨ above ë, whereas others are spelling errors (be it intentional or not). Then there are other questions, such as "do differently spelled authors make for a differently spelled name?"

[nielsklazenga]

Okay, I will make it clear in the term and we'll talk about variants later. How about changing the label to emendationOf?