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higher taxonomy not showing in FLAT
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Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is. First noticed this last Friday, clicked cache refresh for some records, on Monday, noticing it with other records.
See attached data - all these columns should have taxonomic names in them but are null:
phylum phylclass superorder phylorder
I also can't find these records via a search on order = Ephemeroptera Accession = osf
Not sure how many other records have lost their higher taxonomy in FLAT but this problem is worrying because just repairing the lost data only fixes the symptoms - how do we prevent random loss of higher taxonomy from ever happening again?
Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.
Searching on higher taxonomy will find records that have that higher taxonomy.
Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.
Priority Please assign a priority-label. Unprioritized issues get sent into a black hole of despair. high
Merging with https://github.com/ArctosDB/arctos/issues/7695.
how do we prevent random loss of higher taxonomy from ever happening again
Hire a QA engineer and give them whatever resources they need. (But nothing has been "lost," it's just missing from the cache.)
This is a serious problem. As serious as a personnel database that sometimes nulls out the last names of people. I would like (and I'm sure all users and potential users too) to know - why this happens? how often does it happen? what percent of records are affected? etc.
On a daily basis we make many higher-taxonomy-based queries the results of which could be used in a publication, or report, and to have no way to know that the results are reliable is very troubling. I really would like to see an answer that yields some sort of a solution rather than "we can't do this with available resources."
Search is still failing: https://arctos.database.museum/search.cfm?phylorder=Ephemeroptera&accn_number=osf
When will the higher taxonomy be fixed? I just got a request for a report from the National Park Service and need to tell them when they can expect it. Thanks.
