Do we need to add taxon rank to observations

[damianooldoni]

@jimcasaer: is taxon rank something to add to observations data.frame? Do you find it an important parameter for filtering observations (e.g. get number of observations at species niveau or lower per deployment)? If yes, I will have to add it from metadata as I am doing now with vernacular names.

[damianooldoni]

Porring @jimcasaer 👈

[peterdesmet]

Two things:

1. Note that both vernacular names and taxon rank or none required terms
2. There's also a proposition to add (none required) higher classification (class, order, ...) to the taxonomic scope, which can also be useful to add to the observations

[damianooldoni]

Update: taxon rank is added to observations as taxon.taxonRank in version 1.0 (in developement, branch version-1.0):

library(camtraptor)
x <- example_dataset()
"taxon.taxonRank" %in% names(observations(x))
[1] TRUE