Possible ambiguous hidden labels in Sex vocabulary

[marcos-lg]

There are some warnings in the vocabulary lookup regarding hidden labels that are mapped to more than 1 concept after normalizing the label.

For example, there is a M J hidden label in Male

https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=M%20J

Then there is a 2M2J in Mixed:

https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=2M2J

And 1M 3J, 1M 1J, 1M 2J and others also mapped to Male, e.g.: https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=1M%203J

Doesn't it seem a bit contradictory?

I also found these other special cases:

• M F in Mixed and 8M 0F in Male. This might make sense because the latter says 0 females but when we do the lookup of this vocab we remove the numbers so these 2 values are equal. Maybe we should remove numbers from 1 to 9 only and not remove the zero? (there are more cases with zero)

• M--looks F 4/2011ceo seems to be duplicated and we should remove it from one of the concepts: https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=M--looks%20F%204/2011ceo

• 1F 1?is mapped to Female: https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=1F%201? and F? is mapped to Indeterminate: https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=F?

• "female;male" is mapped to Female: https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=%22female;male%22 but FEMALE; MALE is mapped to mixed: https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/Sex/concepts?hiddenLabel=FEMALE;%20MALE

[CecSve]

Thanks for catching these! They should be corrected, and I will update the mappings.

[CecSve]

M F in Mixed and 8M 0F in Male. This might make sense because the latter says 0 females but when we do the lookup of this vocab we remove the numbers so these 2 values are equal. Maybe we should remove numbers from 1 to 9 only and not remove the zero? (there are more cases with zero)

Good point - let's not remove zeros in the lookup.

[ManonGros]

Wouldn't things like M J be for young male? 2M2J should probably be male.

[CecSve]

Wouldn't things like M J be for young male? 2M2J should probably be male.

M J is the value when the value has been stripped for numbers so it used to correspond to for example 1M6J and we should treat those as M. The 2M2J in Mixed is a mistake.