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Updates and Thoughts
Importing Existing Data: Images
Images so far have been included in the prototype by linking their URLs to the appropriate ids or taxa. The import has been done using one of two approaches: Upload...
Importing Existing Data: Great Lakes Invasives
Before full implementation of the Zoological Museum’s Specify, I used the UW mollusks dataset found at the Great Lakes Invasives Network to test our prototype. Since that Symbiota portal has...
Fixing taxonomic thesaurus and tree
Closes issue #16 As described in issue #16, after importing the taxonomic thesaurus and specimens from the Herbarium database, there were problems with the searches and hierarchies shown in the...
Importing Existing Data: Vernaculars
After importing the taxonomic thesaurus for the Herbarium and testing the searches, I realized there was no documented way of importing vernaculars into Symbiota. There are forms and scripts that...
Importing Existing Data: Herbarium
After deciding that we should start building the portal using the data from an existing Symbiota installation, I concentrated my efforts into importing the databases from the Herbarium into the...