Need to standardise `taxon_rank` values
ehwenk opened this issue · 1 comments
ehwenk commented
@wcornwell @fontikar
Two issues:
- we currently have a mix of lowercase and uppercase
taxon_rank
values - we currently have a mix of English and Latin
taxon_rank
values
We should select a standard and implement it when the taxonomic resources are read in.
It seems that lowercase is the standard (DarwinCore, International Association of Plant Taxonomy, a style guide), but NSL uses uppercase:
- https://stylemanual.com.au/contents/subject-areas/biology/naming-organisms/general-principles-formal-taxonomic-names
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/taxonRank
- https://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/pages/main/art_3.html
- https://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/pages/main/art_4.html
Also, do we want the output values to be:
form, variety, subspecies, species, genus, family, class subclass
or
forma, varietas, subspecies, species, genus, familia, classis subclassis
Right now, the column headers are in English (e.g. genus, family, subclass), but the values in the taxon_rank column are Latin (Familia, Varietas, Forma)
wcornwell commented
english, DarwinCore