GBIF Backbone - August 2016 Update
GBIF has just put a new backbone taxonomy into production! Since our last update of the GBIF Backbone we have received various feedback and gained insight into potential code improvements. Here is a quick summary of what has changed in this August 2016 version. Important code changes: much less eager basionym detection resulting in fewer algorithmically assigned synonyms and removing many false synonyms especially in plants detect and merge orthographic variants of species doing gender stemming, allowing double consonant characters, deal with author transliterations and merging hybrid names All fixed issues in the source code that generates a new backbone can be found there, each of them often leads to actual reported user feedback: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-3029 New sources The following new sources have been incorporated into the august backbone: major new version of The Paleobiology Database contributing 2,315 new families, 11,390 genera and 131,958 species names to the...