So there will be updates at globalnames.org soon
thank you for another gentle push @Rekyt :)
What makes Go a great language for biodiverstity informatics? https://globalnames.org/news/2021/07/14/go/
There is another interesting language https://vlang.io/ that tries to remove limitations in Go and Rust, but I won't trust it at this point of time.
Hi and thanks for this great project! I recently started using Global Names tools for a project and noticed you have two organization accounts on Github: GlobalNamesArchitecture and gnames. Some repos like gnfinder exist in both places, though the ones on gnames account are more recent (I think?). What's the connection between the two accounts and which one is the main source?
Hi @ka7eh
github.com/GlobalNamesArchitecture mostly contains Ruby projects, all of them were done earlier. The `github.com/gnames' contains more recent implementations written in Go. The Go code is planned to be developed further, while Ruby code will be more and more deprecated/removed with time.
You can see https://globalnames.org for news, docs and tutorials. In general gnfinder, gnverifier, gnparser from
gnames are the main projects that are actively developed now.
I was one verision behind with
brew, now I updated it to GNfinder v0.14.2, so if you did use brew try to install it again.
It works!! Awesome - thanks very much. I appreciate it!!
Hi @dimus :)
Thank you for all your great answers to my questions.
Because we're compiling databases for our review on taxonomic harmonization (see preprint here: https://ecoevorxiv.org/e3qnz/), we would be interested to know the global numbers of names indexed by GNIndex and GNResolver. With a break down between total number of names vs. accepted names vs. synonyms if possible.
Because we couldn't find these on the websites
Thank you for all your great answers to my questions.
Because we're compiling databases for our review on taxonomic harmonization (see preprint here: https://ecoevorxiv.org/e3qnz/), we would be interested to know the global numbers of names indexed by GNIndex and GNResolver. With a break down between total number of names vs. accepted names vs. synonyms if possible.
Because we couldn't find these on the websites
accepted names/vs sysnonyms is a harder questions, because it it taxonomy, and as such depends on a source. For example in CoL there are 4 million name-strings for 2 million species
In general in GNverifier database for 27 mil name-strings there are 8 million canonical forms. The last estimation for known species I heard was ~2.5 million. So I would estimate that for 2.5 million species there are ~8 million names and ~100 million name-strings "in the wild"
I cannot wrap my head around how to do it well. Many resources are either nomenclatural, or even "lexical" and do not have any synonymy attached. Other resources are derivatives, for example GBIF accepted names are derivatives from Catalogue of Life whichh in turn takes data from, for example Index Fungorum, ITIS etc. Other resources are just plain dirty, like ION, and some are centuries old like Index Animalium. Then there is TreeOfLife who just slam together several classifications and end up with way more species than it is estimated. Then different nomenclatural codes have somewhat different approach and terms to what CoL calls an 'accepted name'. So I think such estimation can only be given "according to" a particular source, and in my opinion CoL puts more effor than other sources to compile a global, and manually curated approximation of such taxonomic data.
GN tools, I think, are mostly about the lexical level
@dimus I have a checklist of bees to add to global names. What is the best way to communicate about it? The names are in tsv & csv formats here https://zenodo.org/record/5738043
I'm not familiar with Go, but looking at the docs for logrus, I think it should be an easy addition. If there's any interest in supporting a log level flag, I can work on a PR for it.
there is such option for gnparser -q, I'll add the same to gnverifier. Log goes to STDERR, so redirecting STDERR to /dev/null would be enother way to solve it
another way is to use either https://verifier.globalnames.org/api/v0 or /api/v1 directly (version 0 is the future v2), documenation is at https://apidoc.globalnames.org/gnames and https://apidoc.globalnames.org/gnames-beta
