Plant Name Reconciliationand

Data Extension

Matthew BlissettLead Biodiversity Informatician – Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

8 December 2014

Dataset with plant names

…and taxonomic status from TPL

How?

for i in $(< dataset ); do r=$(curl http://www.thep

lantlist.org/tpl1.1/ search?q=$i);

echo r | grep status >> output;

done

Complications…

• Spreadsheet: Schinus longifolius var. paraguariensis (Hassler) F. Barkley

• The Plant List: Schinus longifolia var. paraguariensis F.A. Barkley

How?

for i in $(< dataset ); do r=$(curl http://www.thep

lantlist.org/tpl1.1/ search?q=$i);

echo r | grep status >> output;

done

Better way

Schinus longifolius var. paraguariensis(Hassler) F. Barkley

Taxonomic status of 229196-2?

229196-2

Synonym

IPNI Reconciliation Service

IPNI Reconciliation Service

IPNI Reconciliation Service

OpenRefine

Better way

Schinus longifolius var. paraguariensis(Hassler) F. Barkley

229196-2

Questions?

Try it out:http://data1.kew.org/reconciliation/

M.Blissett@kew.org@matt_blissett

/RBGKew