The strange case(s) of the missing identity

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@datafixer this makes me smile (and perhaps wryly). It’s exactly this kind of thing that collection managers need help with. They need ways to “see” these issues in their data. Yes, they could export data and use the command line. I’d suggest they need better tools in their local CMS to help them. (see for example Secret Sauce to Visible Sauce! Controlled Vocabularies - #3 by Debbie). For at least some of what you found, it seems like there was a column shift b/c of a separator issue (that is, localities or other values like dates in the scientificName column). Perhaps folks could make more use of the dwc gbif validation tool that would be startled to find such data types in the sciName column.