Summary

When users are labelling crops, if a species is missing they currently have to reach out to the Antenna team and ask us to add it. We then check if we can find the species on GBIF, if there are any synonym species to consider, any alternative spellings, etc. before we add it. This process is time consuming for both the Antenna team and for users. We want to find a way for users to add species without support, but still keep the Antenna taxonomy clean and free from duplicates.

Detailed Description

Thoughts:

• The backend is already prepared to let users add or modify species. It's the process around it that needs some more thinking, to make sure we will not end up with taxonomy chaos...
• One idea could be we use the GBIF or iNaturalist API and let users search for species? If a species is present there, it should be pretty safe to add.
• A lot of species however, especially in tropical regions, are not present on GBIF. When labeling data, users might still want to refer to such species. Can we find a way to still support this? Maybe make it possible to add project specific species, that are not connected to any external resource.