Alex,
I have created a new dwc archive for the current backbone with parsed name 
fields.
It is available as usual here: 
http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-current.zip

Markus

http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/readme.html




On 7 Feb 2017, at 10:43, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org<mailto:mdoering at 
gbif.org>> wrote:

Hi Alex,
I agree, the parsed name should be part of the core taxon file of the backbone 
dwc archive.
I have created an issue here and hope to add the terms in the next backbone 
versions export:
https://github.com/gbif/checklistbank/issues/18

Thanks,
Markus

On 2 Feb 2017, at 16:03, godfoder <godfoder at acis.ufl.edu<mailto:godfoder at 
acis.ufl.edu>> wrote:

iDigBio is nearly complete with the process of integrating the GBIF Backbone 
into our backend and the process so far has been fairly painless. Thank for all 
the hard work you've put into building up this resource for the community.

I do have one (hopefully minor) change request:

Can you add in the parsed values for specificEpithet and infraspecificEpithet 
into the taxon file where they are available? Background: We're using a 
multi-term fuzzy match in elasticsearch to resolve taxonomy from records 
against the backbone, this is performing fairly well, and the more terms we add 
to the match criteria the better it becomes. The scientificName field in most 
specimens doesn't include authorship information, so is a relatively poor match 
overall against the scientificName field in the backbone. Most specimens supply 
the specificEpithet field though, so I was including it in our matching 
criteria until I realized that that field is missing from the backbone entirely.

Thanks,

- Alex

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