Trevor Rife

Is the goal to have the entire process automated and then generate a PR with new pubs from these sources? There is an existing [R package](https://github.com/jkeirstead/scholar) that can be used...

@ch728 If we remove the colon characters in the exported image files will that break the ability to import those images directly into breedbase?

I'm not sure if this is directly related to a parsing issue, but I had talked with Nick about including a label for each of the photo name components so...

`pedigreeString` could be used for Purdy notation right now, but having it specifically marked as Purdy format would act as a catch for downstream tools that want to parse it...

@daveneti I agree and this aligns well with other parts of the standard, as well (e.g., `ObservationUnit`)

@chris263 As long as this information is communicated to Field Book via `observationUnitPosition.entryType` we could add some level of support. The examples given in the brapi docs are `"CHECK", "TEST",...

I've discussed with a few people that there is a bit of a break between the _data types_ that are being produced or collected and the _collection layouts_ that are...

If I'm understanding everything correctly, it would pretty much just be a mutual custom augmentation of the current BrAPI spec with database people and field book people agreeing to the...