Consolidating type information in the UCD project

[JimWoolley]

Feature or enhancement

Presently, information on primary types in the UCD is in two separate places. For species that have been created directly in TW, information on type specimens is tied to collection objects. For species that came over from UCD London, type information is listed as Data Attributes in Annotations. Below is a screen shot for the species Signiphora flavella Girault.

As a result, there is no API for Roger to call to pull up type information in ucd.chalcid.org for the vast majority of species in Chalcidoidea, although the data are present in TW.

In addition, we are once again negotiating with the USNM to post or link images of primary types of Chalcidoidea in the UCD. At present, there would seem to be nothing in TW to link them to.

Location

UCD project

Screenshot, napkin sketch of interface, or conceptual description

Your role

Curator of the UCD