Most wildlife photographers that I am aware off are much more interested in capturing a great looking shot, hardly any are really interested to accurately name the frog or orchid that they photograph. It is a feature request that probably doesn't attract a huge audience of potential PSu customers. Once such an import structure exists, we could then try to compile at least some useful lists for particular species groups. A format to import such a taxonomic thesaurus for a particular species group (perhaps filtered by region). But it is something that Hert would have to support. I think it would already be a huge time-saver, if it was possible to import a checklist of species names with the taxonomic hierarchy mapped to their corresponding fields. Still, compiling your own controlled taxonomic vocabulary within PSu is cumbersome - especially because you have to manually map the different taxonomic ranks to their corresponding DarwinCore fields. For many regions of the world and most species groups the information available is not particularly accessible. But the majority of biodiversity remains essentially unknown, especially in species groups that are much less iconic than a tiger, birds or butterflies.Ĭompiling any such reference lists is therefore not just a technical challenge. The irony: there are species going extinct as we speak and the planet is facing an enormous biodiversity crisis. Many regions world-wide are very poorly know, most of their species remain undiscovered. ![]() Some regional resources like the Lichen Consortium do have distribution data linked to specimens and tools built in to create species checklists for a particular region. There are lots of resources like The Plant List, or Index Fungorum, some of them can even be accessed via API, but they not necessarily have sufficiently granular data, where those species actually occur. But the amount of names is still overwhelming - even in these groups.Īnd Bongo is correct that a user might need only a small subset of those names, say all names from vascular plants in Germany, rather that the vascular plants of the world. There are some groups (orchids, birds) that are very popular and thus reasonably well known, their taxonomy is a bit more settled and not changing all that frequently. But compiling those lists and keeping them reasonably up-to-date can be challenging. I agree that it would make sense to focus on supplying controlled vocabularies for specific taxonomic groups and ideally for specific regions as well. Is there any interest in looking at the possibilities of programmatically creating labels to complete the Darwin core XMP or any alternate method of completing the Darwin core XMP with Photo Supreme?
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