Markus Döring

This is very much related to all other higher rank terms which all say the same, e.g. for family: > The full scientific name of the family in which the...

All DwC terms for higher ranks are essential in the current GBIF implementation. You can only search occurrences or get metrics by those ranks. If we want to be able...

@jhpoelen the actual COL checklist does not contain species interaction records (yet). The ColDP format does allow to share them and COL CheckllistBank contains some datasets that started to make...

I was wondering the same ;) I dont think there is right now, but it would be nice to be able to search datasets by the existence of any of...

https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/backend/issues/1101

It would be great if the IPT would then also allow to generate [ColDP](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp) which is for most parts very close to frictionless data. There is even a [frictionless tabular-data-package](http://api.catalogueoflife.org/datapackage)...

Thanks, that's good. It only solve the problem for CentOS machines though. In my case it was Windows. I would still think it is well worth to do a standalone...

It does not have to be JDBC, we also added support for Excel sheets through a custom connector. But I would hope we can get away with the same kind...

getting a list of documents is probably fine, but how can we flatten an arbitrary nested JSON document? Could a source define a list of JSONPath expressions that [mongo-java-driver](https://mongodb.github.io/mongo-java-driver/) can...

Looks like we could use a mongodb _projection_: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/project-fields-from-query-results/#projection http://mongodb.github.io/mongo-java-driver/3.5/driver/tutorials/perform-read-operations/#projections