Art of Life-Examples

Challenges to determining names on illustrations in BHL:

• Scientific names written in script http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7138687071/in/photostream
• Abbreviated genus
  • http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38377469
    • Or even the species epithet abbreviated: the synonym “Odontocoelus americanus texensis” shortened as “Odontocoelus a. texensis” http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7115365043/sizes/l/in/photostream/
    • Or the genus omitted and placed elsewhere: http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7115754501/in/set-72157629904763257
• Names that look like scientific names but aren’t
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6992652076/in/photostream
• Common names in multiple languages
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7109463529/in/photostream/
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7139402847/
    • Where the OCR might be problematic to interpret correctly too: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13804809
• Illustrations where names are printed on different pages
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6993297968/in/photostream, its list of taxa is 2 pages before it, at
    http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13804663
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6966514516/in/photostream/ , its list of taxa is a list at
    http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38924313
• Synonyms/Names that have changed
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6754853301/
    • Printed as “Didus cucullatus”, today known as “Raphus cucullatus”
• Landscapes or gardening design that don’t have specific organisms listed
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7138915961/in/photostream
• Hybridized organisms (flower hybrids, trade names, dog breeds)
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7138911713/in/photostream
• Crazy things like a monkey hitting a bear with a frying pan
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6993029180/in/set-72157629592437894/
• The text being vertical on the page
  • http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118926#page/624/mode/1up
• Multiple species on 1 page
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/5974387133/in/photostream/
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7268643562/ (no species names in book)
  • http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23387924 1 page with 3 sep photographs each with their own titles
  • http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23387707 1 page with 3 sep photographs (1 illustration) and it has its own copyright dateMultiple illustrations on 1 page
• “long s” or “medial s”, a printed f instead of an s:
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7257629416/in/set-72157629876293644/