Homonym discovery and management (under development)

Homonyms are names of different taxa that are spelled the same. When names are treated as metadata, homonyms risk incorrectly bringing together information on different species. The homonyms need to be disambiguated. The approach in GNA is to identify all possible homonymic - both within the jursidiction of a code or between codes (some call these hemi-homonyms), use these to uncover any names of subgeneric taxa that are associated with homonyms, and use taxonomic treatments and user input to assign these to the appropriate genus.å

* Homonym tools under development are available at http://betula.mbl.edu/hh/
* Are generic name(s) homonyms: http://betula.mbl.edu/hh/php/textbox.php
* Find generic homonyms in lists : http://betula.mbl.edu/hh/php/upload.php
* Find generic homonyms in nomenclaturally crtedible sources:" http://betula.mbl.edu/hh/php/trusted.php
* Find binomial homonyms/chresonyms in nomenclaturally credible sources: http://betula.mbl.edu/hh/php/ctrusted.php

Nomenclaturally credible sources that have been explored for homonyms are available at http://betula.mbl.edu/hh/doc/trusted.html

The code for homonyms tools are a mixture of R and PHP and located At: http://github.com/ashipunov/Homonym-Tools).

The tools are not widely tested.