traitecoevo / APCalign

R package for accessing, matching and updating species names of Australian flora
https://traitecoevo.github.io/APCalign/
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Need to standardise `taxon_rank` values #133

Closed ehwenk closed 1 year ago

ehwenk commented 1 year ago

@wcornwell @fontikar Two issues:

We should select a standard and implement it when the taxonomic resources are read in.

It seems that lowercase is the standard (DarwinCore, International Association of Plant Taxonomy, a style guide), but NSL uses uppercase:

Also, do we want the output values to be:

form, variety, subspecies, species, genus, family, class subclass

or

forma, varietas, subspecies, species, genus, familia, classis subclassis

Right now, the column headers are in English (e.g. genus, family, subclass), but the values in the taxon_rank column are Latin (Familia, Varietas, Forma)

wcornwell commented 1 year ago

english, DarwinCore