binomen - taxonomic classes and parsing
I maintain, along with other awesome people, the taxize R package - a taxonomic toolbelt for R, for interacting with taxonomic data sources on the web. Taxonomy data is not standardized, but there are a lot of common elements, and there is a finite list of taxonomic ranks, and finite number of major taxonomic data sets. Thus, I’ve been interested in attempting to define a pseudo standard for expressing taxonomic data in R. The conversation started a while back in a GitHub issue, and hasn’t moved very far. ...