"Seed" functionality - to pre-load an echinopscis project with data

[nickynicolson]

Currently echinopscis is provided as an empty project (or "vault" in Obsidian terms). It would be much more useful for taxonomic users if they could specify their area of interest and have the system be pre-loaded with resources like the scientific names, type specimen images, taxonomic descriptions, literature etc. These could then be annotated or linked as required.

[mjy]

Shameless plug here, apologies in advance. TaxonWorks is open-source written in a very accessible language (Ruby) behind the scenes. Code an exporter, or wrap its API to generate seed data, even if just to play with? There are lots of data available to play right now, that data is doubling this year, and we see continued major growth moving forward. A major benefit here would be communicating to TW users that they have a potential "out", i.e. it's always important to think about "how do I get out", even when you haven't yet started. Or, if not an "out" then an opportunity to re-frame the way they think and work with their data via echinopscis.