Taxonomic Harmonization: A problem you didn’t know you had! A lecture given in the context of the first GfÖ & NFDI4Biodiversity Winter School on Data Management in Ecology and Environmental Science December 5-9, 2022. This lecture aims to be an introduction to the problem of taxonomic harmonization and how to solve it. It's organized into four sections: What is taxonomy? (Taxonomy 101) What is “taxonomic harmonization”? What is needed to perform taxonomic harmonization? How to perform taxonomic harmonization in practice? It's following the CC-BY 4.0 License It heavily relies on the following publication, please cite it if you use some of the material: Grenié, M., Berti, E., Carvajal-Quintero, J., Dädlow, G. M., Sagouis, A. & Winter, M. (2022). Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices. <em>Methods in Ecology and Evolution</em>, 00, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13802 An up-to-date version of this material is also available on GitHub: https://github.com/Rekyt/taxonomic_harmonization_lecture







