Names are often organized in hierarchical classifications that serve as tallies of how much biodiversity has been described.
It must include variant and erroneous spellings of the same names, all synonyms, common names, and surrogates for names (such as molecular barcodes) if it is to link all content on the same species irrespective of what name or spelling was used in the source. To fulfill this role, the infrastructure needs to have access to all names that have ever been used for all taxa. Their use in a names-based infrastructure will help the transformation of Biology into a ‘big data’ discipline. Their almost universal use for over 250 years allows them to be used as metadata to index and organize biodiversity information. Scientific names of organisms identify units of biodiversity and have value in biodiversity informatics. Introduction - names for biodiversity informatics
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