On 22 Feb 2017, at 11:14, Markus Döring mdoering@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