Scott Chamberlain

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Okay, then all sounds good, was just thinking if taxa and edges may not be the same, but not a problem

Partly implemented. Works in `Taxonomy` objects, but will simply stop with error if variables not of the same length - Doesn't work with current `ex_taxmap` dataset. Fix this in next...

Features: - [ ] serialize to a darwin core archive (using EML in part)?

current feeling is that we may want to implement a sister pkg for dwc serialization support, but will have a play and see how it goes

So Darwin Core is a standard for data and metadata around biodiversity data, and it includes taxonomy http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#taxonindex includes lots of terms taxonID | scientificNameID | acceptedNameUsageID | parentNameUsageID |...

the only question i got on my talk about taxonomy in R at TDWG in ottawa last fall was about whether we'd considered darwin core

started working on this in e1f1a8f3bd2df3ff91dbf35de5a8490c59c1c0cd (accidentally used commit message I meant to use for `taxize` - what should have said was related to this issue) - added arbitrary `attributes`...

(work on this is on branch https://github.com/ropensci/taxa/tree/taxize-compat-changes ) @zachary-foster For `taxa` , `hierarchy`, etc. How did you image changing these print methods, seems especially hairy since they are arbitrary, so...