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GBIF ISO and TDWG Web Services

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A Drupal installation that provides a multi-lingual thesaurus service for the follow data types:

• Country Names
• Language Names
• Taxonomic Rank Concepts
  • where the basic operational unit is a taxonomic rank. A rank concept record has a default English representation and may have many multi-lingual and orthographic representations. If a rank concept is unique to a particular language it may be represented as a rank concept.

Screenshots for Development

• Language Views
  • Sample Language Record Page
  • Language List
• Sample Country Record Page
• Taxon Ranks Information
  • Ranks Home
  • Ranks List shows one of multiple referenced rank classifications
  • Ranks Detail provides a view of a single rank record detail

Data resources for populating the site.

• Language names
  • ISO Sources from Ethnologue
  • Dictionary of Language Names See attachment (Lang.txt)
  • Native Names for Languages
  • GeoNames - Languages in their original forms
  • Omniglot Languages in their original form

• Country Names
  • The countries of the world in 40 languages
  • OmniGlot country names (slow)
  • Native Names for countries
  • List of country names in various languages

Output formats for web services