After doing this process for the mammals and amphibians, here are a few thoughts about refining the process:
I could be naming the shapefiles with their CoL binomial in future. Is there any advantage to giving them arbitrary names if Andrew has to immediately rename them based on the taxon table I provide with them.
I'm creating SQL code to run against my local instance of CoL to do the taxon matching. Should I be storing this on GIThub? Or the other idea we talked about is having a single CoL instance for the project, so we all work off the same one, and can see each other's code and data. I'd like to avoid the taxon matching being a black box.
How do we use the CoL ID (or any internal MoL taxon ID) once the taxa are loaded through the pipeline. We know that taxon name binomials are not really unique identifiers, so I was expecting that we would be using the CoL ID explicitly in storing and identifying the maps, so that our map is tied to the particular taxon concept in the internal taxonomy and can refer back to it as changes occur. I wonder if we need to look carefully through the data storage and access steps to see if the unique link back to the taxonomy is maintained with the maps stored by taxon name?
The last is the big one - maybe you've worked this out already, or we could discuss next week.
After doing this process for the mammals and amphibians, here are a few thoughts about refining the process:
The last is the big one - maybe you've worked this out already, or we could discuss next week.