Taxacom: Dates of e-pubs ahead of print?

[Richard Pyle]

> One complication here is that many people
> preregistering publications on ZooBank create a new record for the journal,
> even though one may already exist with a specified archive. If they don't specify
> an archive for the new duplicate journal record, then we have a situation where
> there is no specified archive for the journal record associated with the
> publication, but Rich Pyle can at any stage merge the duplicate record with the
> original journal record with a specified archive. I forget what the  consquences
> are of this, in terms of the date of specified archived, but it all gets a bit too
> complicated!

Stephen is correct that people sometimes create a duplicate copy of a Journal that lacks a reference to an online archive.  When such errors are discovered, they are corrected by the most appropriate means.  The way it works is that when duplicate journal records are merged, the earliest date on which one of the journals was linked to an archive is taken as the date on which the indication was made in ZooBank. The same applies to ISSN/ISBN assignment.

Not really all that complicated, actually.

Aloha,
Rich

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