The majority of biodiversity data is not findable, accessible, integratable, or reusable, partially because of a lack of metadata. Taxonomic names as metadata are useful, but not sufficient because these names may be updated as knowledge progresses. There is a great need for tools and services that can scale up to create and maintain metadata for the vast and varied long tail of dark data. Here we examine the use of GNFinder as a tool for creating and maintaining metadata using mentions of taxa in text from public…