property:basionymExAuthorship

[nielsklazenga]

basionymExAuthorship (property)

Label	Basionym Ex Authorship
Definition	People the basionym has been attributed to, but who didn’t provide the validating description.
Usage notes
Comments
Required	No
Repeatable	No
Constraints	Literal

[nielsklazenga]

I find 'ex-authorship' somewhat yuckie, as an 'ex-author' is not an author. exAttribution would be better from my perspective, but I am not sure if the same language is used in other flavours of biological nomenclature.

The bigger issue is that in the authorship of zoological names the author comes before the 'ex', while in the authorship of botanical names the author comes after the 'ex'. This is often overlooked. So, the GNA Global Name Parser will issue a quality warning that 'Ex authors are not required', but then swap around the authors and ex-authors. Tropicos, which only deals with botanical names, gets it the wrong way around as well (example).

This is a much more tractable issue than the basionym/combination authorship one and can be resolved with a simple usage note or comment. I wonder though if it is not better to discourage people from parsing attribution strings.

[nielsklazenga]

So, the botanical Code (Art. 46.5) uses 'authorship as ascribed' and 'publishing author(s)'. I am suggesting to use those terms in the definition rather then for the term name or label.

[nielsklazenga]

Merging with #239.