Clean up Specify Taxonomy Tree for Botany

[FedorSteeman]

Clean up Specify taxonomy (for Botany initially)

• Merging taxa like "Indet.", "IncertaeSedis" and "sp." to the nearest parent
• Fixing taxa registered with cf. & aff. qualifiers in name

[PipBrewer]

Focus on finding-
indet.
sp
c.f.
aff
incertae
Not assigned
Unassigned
WHILST Pip is importing

Once Pip has finished importing, then search for and remove duplicates using SQL

[jlegind]

I have cleaned out [ Indet. ] from botany.
There is one branch where this figures :
Tracheophyta - IncertaeSedis - IncertaeSedis - IncertaeSedis ...

[FedorSteeman]

Delete all of those. If there are collection objects associated, move these to Tracheophyta first, by merging the lowest branch to that.

[FedorSteeman]

Specify Sync peeled out some invalid taxon names as a list that may come in handy:

SpSync Results.xls

[jlegind]

This is great - thank you!

[jlegind]

Merging duplicates:

Consider using the Specify 7 API for merging names using the duplicates taxon IDs.

[FedorSteeman]

I moved the tasks that need to be handled by (someone like) Justin into ticket #73

[jlegind]

Jan has completed two items :

• Merging taxa like "Indet.", "IncertaeSedis" and "sp." to the nearest parent
• Fixing taxa registered with cf. & aff. qualifiers in name
  Please be aware that some of the cf. and aff. could not be resolved and are passed on to the taxonomic expert.
  Spreadsheet for the expert: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13xCRm93_3j5N2zZHaJf19g_MGyjqOXJ1qI1z0Cp3Ov4/edit?usp=sharing

[FedorSteeman]

@jlegind If there still are duplicates left, I think you should leave these to Justin too, so you can move on to the next ticket.