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Please link to resource metadata - don't just give name of resource #100

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Rows in taxon.txt have the name of the originating resource written out, e.g. 
"Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera". From this string it is 
difficult to do much such as link to the resource or to information about it. 
For consuming applications (such as Open Tree of Life) it would be much better 
to provide the id of the resource, e.g. 13556, and provide a table of metadata 
for resources. One column of the metadata table might be the URL for the 
resource http://www.obis.org.au/irmng/ - which I know to be in your database 
because it's displayed on the page for the resource ( 
http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/13556 ).

Thanks
Jonathan

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonathan...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2013 at 5:21

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I suspect this is about the downloadable GBIF backbone archive?

Original comment by wixner@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2013 at 3:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yes, I was referring to file taxon.txt in the GBIF taxonomy Darwin Core archive.

Original comment by jonathan...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2013 at 4:17