citation

[klausriede]

Feature or enhancement

How do we cite an individual taxon page f.e. https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/845679/overview

Location

dont know

Screenshot, napkin sketch of interface, or conceptual description

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Your role

retired biologist

[typophyllum]

Currently there is the problem with taxa that have coordinate OTUs, of which TaxonPages picks the one with the highest number. If this is deleted, e. g. to cure display issues (missing pictures or links to sounds) then the URL of this taxon changes. The coordinate OTU with the lowest number always has all the data.

Recent example: sfg-taxonpages/orthoptera#88

[mjy]

We need to start exposing the UUIDs perhaps if we're going to cite individual taxon concepts. They will be more "stable" than internal OTU ids. Note that we (SFG) are not claiming any particular level of stability for URLs we've derived. See also https://docs.taxonworks.org/about/citing-taxonworks.html, ideally this question will be answered there.