suggestions from EMODnet Biology meeting

[LennertSchepers]

• [ ] create vignettes (e.g. how to download and use abundances)
• [x] create overview of available traits, any help for which choices are available (also link to WoRMS traits portal?)
• [x] make clear where trait aggregation is happening, e.g. in WoRMS there are more traits (e.g. macro/meio/...benthos), but in download toolbox/eurobis you can only select 'benthos'
• [ ] do we have information on how complete/updated the traits are? (e.g. IUCN red list)
• [ ] for really large datasets, downloading as csv might be a faster?
• [x] explain somewhere what happens if you provide an MRGID and a multipolygon (it will take the union of both)

[salvafern]

create overview of available traits, any help for which choices are available (also link to WoRMS traits portal?)

Done in a dataset included in the package: eurobis::species_traits. Origin: ./data-raw/species_traits.R

make clear where trait aggregation is happening, e.g. in WoRMS there are more traits (e.g. macro/meio/...benthos), but in download toolbox/eurobis you can only select 'benthos'

No idea, @bart-v ?

do we have information on how complete/updated the traits are? (e.g. IUCN red list)

As mentioned, origin in ./data-raw/species_traits.R. So if it is in EMODnet-Biology, it is here. I can run this after each harvest, or look into adding an Action that run this automatically periodically. But will take some time to handle secrets, probably not worth.

for really large datasets, downloading as csv might be a faster?

I think ows4R only supports GML calls, but will look it up. Pagination is there anyways.

explain somewhere what happens if you provide an MRGID and a multipolygon (it will take the union of both)

In README

[bart-v]

• only a subset of traits is used indeed (the ones that we considered complete enough)
• aggregation happens during the indexing from MS SQL to PostgreSQL (again, to have a complete view: macro/meio/... is hardly completed)