traitecoevo/APCalign

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:

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)

english, DarwinCore