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Should we add lots of vernacular names to the synonyms list #160
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I think I asked around about this one a while ago, and decided to remove We have easy access to NCBI common names, e.g. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Mark T. Holder notifications@github.com
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I don't know what next steps are for this issue, so I'm going to assign it to Mark and flag it 'needs discussion'. |
i added a hesitant thumbs-up. it might be useful in the tree viewer (e.g. educational purposes) and perhaps sometimes curating trees (i've run across this once or twice), but i understand the cons. |
There's this pull request, which implements a simple common names feature. Common names are not used in taxon matching, but will be available to tools that want them. This doesn't take language into account unfortunately - ideally vernaculars would be tagged with the applicable language. |
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See https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!topic/opentreeoflife/4jDcxryXWxg
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