On 22 Feb 2017, at 11:14, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:
> the way you describe is the current way to go. Thanks a lot > We are working with Kew to publish a new version for a long time, but things > progress very slowly. OK - looking forward to this. > The other issue is that IPNI really is 3 datasets combined all of which can > cover the same name. You should therefore be prepared to find multiple ids > for the same name - even on their current website. See > http://www.ipni.org/about_the_index.html I?m assuming that is the purpose of the -1, -2 and -3 suffixes on their ID numbers - to specify which data set the name comes from. > In the future we would like to add a scientificNameID property to the GBIF > backbone taxa and populate that with IPNI, IF or ZooBank ids. But that is not > available so far. Is there an ETA for this? 1 year? 2 years? longer?! Cheers Yan
