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 @fontikar Two issues:
taxon_rank
valuestaxon_rank
valuesWe 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)