For plants in particular it would be valuable to have to the taxon authority included in the fullname as this is how botanists are used to working with taxon names, e.g. Glycine wightii subsp. pseudojavanica (Taub.) Verdc. var. pseudojavanica.
I would like to work on this in the codebase myself if you're happy for me to do that. I just need to know whether authorities should be included in the fullname for all taxa (plants and animals, etc), and whether there are any concerns that updating the fullname field like this might cause. One example may be if people are joining the fullname and authority fields in some kind of data publishing process, or if people are including the authority name in the taxon.name field already. Another issue may be ensuring the workbench and data entry forms are using the same code generate fullnames.
I'd also like a field called fullnameHTML and generate an appropriately marked up name string at the same time to make printing on labels and reports easier, e.g.
Glycine wightii subsp. pseudojavanica (Taub.) Verdc. var. pseudojavanica.
For plants in particular it would be valuable to have to the taxon authority included in the fullname as this is how botanists are used to working with taxon names, e.g. Glycine wightii subsp. pseudojavanica (Taub.) Verdc. var. pseudojavanica.
I would like to work on this in the codebase myself if you're happy for me to do that. I just need to know whether authorities should be included in the fullname for all taxa (plants and animals, etc), and whether there are any concerns that updating the fullname field like this might cause. One example may be if people are joining the fullname and authority fields in some kind of data publishing process, or if people are including the authority name in the taxon.name field already. Another issue may be ensuring the workbench and data entry forms are using the same code generate fullnames.
I'd also like a field called fullnameHTML and generate an appropriately marked up name string at the same time to make printing on labels and reports easier, e.g.
Glycine wightii subsp. pseudojavanica (Taub.) Verdc. var. pseudojavanica.