Title | A review of software tools for spell-checking taxon names in vegetation databases |
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Description | Correct spelling of taxon names in vegetation databases is a fundamental prerequisite for many data processing steps. However, manual detection and correction of spelling mistakes is inefficient, prone to errors and non-reproducible, especially when scanning large databases. Here, I review six software tools that spell-check taxon names in vegetation databases: (1) the Global Names Resolver, (2) the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, (3) the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service and R packages (4) Plantminer, (5) Taxonstand and (6) tpl. In particular, I test their capacity to spell-check names across the taxonomic ranks and organism groups frequently encountered in vegetation data and challenge their ability to screen names from different geographic regions. Performance by software tools differed widely in these tests. Backed up by multiple reference lists, the Global Names Resolver emerged as the most versatile software tool. All software solutions currently suffer from some minor limitations, including an inability to spell-check names of hybrid taxa. Furthermore, some spelling mistakes, by their nature, cannot be resolved unambiguously. Given these limitations, taxon names should be spell-checked with software tools in a semi-automatic rather than an automatic way. |
Publisher | Journal of Vegetation Science |
Date | 2016-01-01 2020-09-17 2020-09-17 |
Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | https://wf.pub/perios/article:192_doi%3A10.1111%2Fjvs.12432 10.1111/jvs.12432 45e4e5dea3c1a8d69b3dc7bb3e3db8f5 |
Language | en |
Source | NSTL |
Coverage | Q94 |