The goal of this site is to create a repository for the submission and management of common (or vernacular) names of organisms and organism groups (higher taxa).
Specifically, we seek the capacity to
- Enable providers (people) to create accounts for themselves. Anonymous providers may occur but would have limited capacities.
- Enable providers to submit vernacular names records. Records may be provided in two ways. As a component of a vernacular names list, or as a single record.
- Vernacular names lists can be submitted in two ways:
- As an imported list where the provider imports the list into a set of vernacular name records or,
- As an unparsed list, where a provider uploads a list and leaves it to the site maintainers to parse and import it into the site.
- A list may be managed in two ways:
- A provider may choose to manage a record locally on the site.
- A provider may choose to manage records externally and replace the records periodically with updates.