Organism classification rank load

Initial reconciliation of 38,868 topics with ITIS 2008-02-14 data.  Conservative analysis of wikipedia taxobot data to determine probable rank, combined with exact match on rank and scientifc name in ITIS.  Set rank and itis_tsn for matches.  itis_tsn is now an enumeration in /biology/itis.  For 29k topics, if the ITIS parent was already reconciled, and no other parent existed, add the higher_classification property. more

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  • Feb 23, 2008
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