[Taxacom] Language tags for scientific names
Gregor Hagedorn
g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 11:37:56 CDT 2008
Andy Mabbett wrote:
> become retrospectively added to a language, such as the many garden
> plants (like "Acer palmatum") lacking vernacular names, and so commonly
> referred to by their scientific names, in everyday English, by people
> who wouldn't recognise them as biological taxa.
That is one reason I would like to be able to express the following
Representation for human consumption for a Taxon Object :
<Representation>
<Label xml:lang="en">Acer palmatum</Label>
<Label xml:lang="de">Fächer-Ahorn</Label>
<Label xml:lang="zxx-taxon">Acer palmatum</Label>
</Representation>
Gregor
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