0.1.2

Changelog

taxadb: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface

taxadb

The goal of taxadb is to provide fast, consistent access to
taxonomic data, supporting common tasks such as resolving taxonomic
names to identifiers, looking up higher classification ranks of given
species, or returning a list of all species below a given rank. These
tasks are particularly common when synthesizing data across large
species assemblies, such as combining occurrence records with trait
records.

Existing approaches to these problems typically rely on web APIs, which
can make them impractical for work with large numbers of species or in
more complex pipelines. Queries and returned formats also differ across
the different taxonomic authorities, making tasks that query multiple
authorities particularly complex. taxadb creates a local database of
most readily available taxonomic authorities, each of which is
transformed into consistent, standard, and researcher-friendly tabular
formats.

common_names

authority -> provider (#32)

test

Data release

Provider Databases in Darwin Core Schema

dwc

avoid id prefix before handling NAs

Raw data exported from authorities

Untransformed raw data exported from authorities

v1.0.0

Data release

tsv-data

taxald data in compressed plain text formats

v0.0.1

Data release