TRY database: plant trait data

[eliagbayani]

The resource is at https://opendata.eol.org/dataset/try

The TRY database is the definitive place for plant trait data, and they have finally shared a taxon-level summary with us. Yay! The archive I put in opendata is mostly processed, and in the general shape of a DwC-A for your convenience. It needs two things:

1. a meta file. I might have tried to cut and paste one from an existing resource, but it seemed safer to have you do it, given my prior adventures with linebreaks, etc. There are a couple of non-standard metadata columns in the measurementOrFact file, but as far as I know, we can just do that now.
2. some references need to be mapped to their records. The file "TRY reference map" should have what you need, but it was beyond my meager skills to execute: A referenceID should attach to a MoF record, if that record has the occurrenceID AND the measurementType listed with it in the mapping file. There may be multiple referenceIDs mapped to the same record. The references are all tucked into the references file already, it's just the mapping to the MoF file that's still needed.

[eliagbayani]

TRY database now available OpenData. Here is the valid DwCA.

[eliagbayani]

Some undefined URIs for mapping: [https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7075151] [http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&trait=Woodiness] [http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Leaf_mass_per_area] [http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Leaf_nitrogen_content_per_leaf_dry_mass] [http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Plant_height_vegetative] [http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Seed_dry_mass] [http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Stem_specific_density]

*May have been added already.