Matt

@jlpereira has the filter stubbed, waiting on filter back-end. Might have to rope @LocoDelAssembly into some of this work on the unified filter branch.

This requires unified filters: #2652. The CollectingEvent filter allows for this. One temporary route forward is to create a button in CE filter that sends ce_ids to CO filter. @jlpereira...

@jrflood I think we can close this as too general, although not comoplete out-dated at this point?

@LocoDelAssembly This is likely your second priority. At it's heart we're looking for a parent/child format with an extension column for NOMEN relationship (and possibly extension column for NOMEN status......

[The VASCAN example dataset](https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=vascan&v=37.6) Fields are here, in two blocks or priority. See also [http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#taxon](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#taxon). Base ``` id taxonID acceptedNameUsageID parentNameUsageID nameAccordingToID scientificName class order family genus subgenus specificEpithet infraspecificEpithet...

@LocoDelAssembly I'm going to throw other considerations here as they come to mind: * [ ] User provided IDs could (should) be added as local identifiers if user selects a...

@LocoDelAssembly Can you chime in here with where you are at for the Specimen side of things?

@LocoDelAssembly @cgendreau is in part with the folks from Vascan. I believe one of your test datasets for the code you are writing is the Vascan dataset linked above? @cgendreau...

I leave @LocoDelAssembly to comment. I will say we're literally today hoping to move to Rails6, and I think Biodiversity4 PR is OK too. @LocoDelAssembly It could be that if...

@cgendreau Spoke with @LocoDelAssembly et al. last week- targetting ~ 1 month for the importer. Sorry for the delays!