EOL Taxonomy Sprint: Encyclopedia of Life's own taxonomy plans

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on September 28, 2008 - 9:26am

Schema for Data Objects

in any given data object I have to make use of at least two taxonomies

<taxon> ... <ScientificName>Argiope aurantia</ScientificName>

Major participatory thrust: Drupal multisites (eventually standalone) called LifeDesks

concentrating on expert taxonomists now
our goal is vetted content for EOL

lots of features in core taxonomy that we will want

canonical name
common name
hierarchical XML import

using APIs listed

Taxonomy Management

want to be able to drag from term table into taxonomy table

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