strange sources

[Yan Wong]

Just FYI, the taxonomy.tsv file from OTT2.9 has the following unconventional sources (instead of ncbi:, gbif: etc) for a few taxa:

 https: (e.g. 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens_sapiens')

 h2007: (e.g. 'h2007:1')

 study713: (e.g. 'study713:361838')

I suspect these might be bugs?

[Jonathan A Rees]

Nope, these are all intended. 

h2007: is the revised Hibbett et al 2007 fungal taxonomy, and study713: is an improved Lamiales taxonomy. These are both documented here: https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/about/taxonomy-version/ott2.9

In the future I expect there to be many taxa added from peculiar sources, and the best way to name a peculiar source, in general, is with a URL.​

We'll see how well the URLs work out when the time comes. For now H. s. s. (which is not in the synthetic tree) is the only taxon we have coming from a peculiar source. (All other sources have abbreviations such as ncbi:.)

If someone has a better authority for that subspecies let me know - Linnaeus perhaps? I could use a BHL URL.

[Yan Wong]

On Sunday, 3 April 2016 17:26:49 UTC+1, Jonathan Rees wrote:

Nope, these are all intended.

Ah - OK. Thanks for that.