Darwin Core Archive is the current standard exchange format for GLobal Names Architecture modules. This gem makes it easy to incorporate files in Darwin Core Archive format into a ruby project.

Gem harvests data from a variety of formats and converts incoming data to DwCA format.

Gem uses a checklist in a comma-separated format as an input, and returns back a new comma-separated list crossmapping the scientific names to one of the data sources from http://resolver.globalnames.org

Gem uses a checklist in a comma-separated format as an input, and returns back a new comma-separated resolved list of scientific names to one of the data sources from http://resolver.globalnames.org

Scientific Names Parser with Cached Results

The purpose of Taxamatch gem is to facilitate fuzzycomparison of two scientific name renderings to findout if they actually point to the same scientific name.