[Taxacom] Machine-tagging Flickr images with taxonomic names

[Andy Mabbett]

I want to tag a picture of a Common Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis, on
Flickr, using their "machine tag" format:

        <http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/>

I thought that the tag should be:

        taxonomy:binomial=Alcedo atthis

but the specific part in that is ignored because of the space.

I then tried:

        taxonomy:binomial=Alcedo-atthis

and:

        taxonomy:binomial=Alcedo+atthis

and:

        taxonomy:binomial="Alcedo atthis"

but each of those were collapsed to:

        taxonomy:binomial=alcedoatthis

which is obviously less than satisfactory.


Can anyone suggest a viable alternative? Or is concatenating genus and
specific acceptable, in such tags?

Is anyone aware of any other schema for tagging using taxonomy?

http://www.technorati.com/tag/Alcedo+atthis

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