suggested list of taxonomic ID providers about lter-core-metabase HOT 3 OPEN

Guidelines I used for including a provider on this list -- ie, providers that are not crossed out in the spreadsheet (examples of dropped candidates in parens below). Of course, these guidelines are also open to discussion:

1. Taxon has an ID (Cal Academy fish catalog does not display taxon ids)
2. the provider is primarily for taxa (Barcode-of-life-seems to be a specimen system)
3. provider is not just a service for searching other DBs or data (GNR, GNI, NatureServe, GBIF)
4. IDs are not just for internal use, that there is some suggestion of reliability, or at least no obvious unreliability. (GBIF - IDs indexed by GNR in 2009 do not resolve today)
5. provider appears to have curation by professionals (wikispecies seems to be crowd sourced, but might be moderated)
6. provider has a single URL head for any taxon level (algaebase has different services for different levels)

from lter-core-metabase.

If you have other candidates, I think it's ok to list them here (@gastil, @atn38 may want to confirm.

Please include

• Provider label
• Provider URI (a URL in its simplest form)
• the URL head to display a landing page for a taxon
• example of the taxon landing page in use.

Metabase will use only the first 2 (provider label and URI). Stylesheets would need the URL head also.

from lter-core-metabase.

related to PASTAplus/DataPortal#7

from lter-core-metabase.