Knowledge Base – Name Alignment Workshop

Key Points

Introduction	Choosing your catalogue to align your collection’s names to is important! The name-alignment-tool is an option that requires no programming experience and reduces overhead that scripting languages are prone to
Navigating Github and Creating a Copy of the Tool	Github is an important tool for collaboration Accessing the tool and using it through githubs interface can be quite easy provided you can navigate the basics!
Using the name-alignment-tool	Knowing the basic steps of adding data, data requirements, changing the readme, and accessing the outputs will give you full access to the tool’s aligning capabilities.
What do these resolutions actually mean?	Resolution is subjective to the catalogue, therefore the aligned names should be treated as hypotheses rather than true standards Name matching with the name-alignment-tool is accurate yet naive, the tool won’t attempt to interpret mistakes
Data Sources: Taxonomic Name Review	Taxonomic name linking facilitates discovery, review, and interpretation, of interaction records GloBI uses a versioned taxonomic name map to map verbatim names into known taxonomic schemes GloBI attempts to provide reasonable links using a controlled and iterative process GloBI taxonomic name linking process is likely imperfect and subjective
Data Sources: Interaction Data Record Review	There are many ways to access GloBI reviews. GloBI reviews can help data managers better understand their data and how GloBI interprets it.