David Shorthouse

@tucotuco I appreciate the formality and the structure, but this was an idea on a whim, borne out of frustration at seeing re-use of occurrence data in multiple resources w/o...

FWIW, KE-EMu is in the midst of migrating its backend to MongoDB. Other backends will be options, but these too will be stored as JSON documents.

Sadly, it doesn't look like there's a free (& usable) jdbc connector. 1. https://github.com/erh/mongo-jdbc (no development in 8 years) 2. http://www.unityjdbc.com/mongojdbc/mongo_jdbc.php ($500 US for client, unknown for server) 3. https://www.dbschema.com/mongodb-jdbc-driver.html...

I've experienced similar, but out the other end - Windows machines unable to decompress DwC-A from the IPT. I suspect in this case, the older version of Java used in...

+1 for support. It would help prevent downstream snafus. The only issue I see here is the secondary need for notification of the abort(s) from the IPT, otherwise an affected...

Last I recall, there's no way to make the lines/edges of the markers themselves transparent, merely their fill. This may have changed in newer versions of Mapserver, but it would...

Made some additions to the JSON-LD-based search, which is heavier and more informative than the autocomplete search API, though the two share some characteristics. Here's an example: https://api.bionomia.net/user.jsonld?q=mcelrath ...co-collectors, families...

How might the IPT (and a DwC-A) deal with cases where instances of `dwciri` could form an array in relation to the core table? This is partly the reason why...

> Note that the Humboldt Eco Extension authors consciously chose [not to use ID fields](https://github.com/tdwg/hc/issues/83) instead favoring `dwciri`. Good decision. The first step for adding `dwciri` to the IPT is...

You may always count on me to muddy the waters; particularly more acute under the brain fog of round 2 of COVID 😳. Here's what I mean about the sandwich....