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Complete backend of COL ChecklistBank
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import of offline aligned names to ChecklistBank based on exported names from ChecklistBank? #1162

Open myrmoteras opened 2 years ago

myrmoteras commented 2 years ago

there is a capacity outside ChecklistBank that works on alignments of taxonomic names downloaded from Checklist bank (see eg CatalogueOfLife/checklistbank#1097 by @jhpoelen) that should be leveraged. Alignment normally comes with human curation and thus a rare resource, improvement of data especially if the aligned results are used for research projects and referenced therein.

With the limited resources in biodiversity informatics this would be an act of reciprocity that would be benefit all of us as well .

mdoering commented 2 years ago

That would be rather difficult to implement given the data model and how name relations between datasets are stored in CLB. The NamesIndex which is at the core of name mapping in CLB should be open for community curation though (e.g. merging/splitting distinct names). It is not all implemented yet, but the model was layed out for that.