Issue 14087

Think about the least intrusive way of dealing with Taiwan

14087
Reporter: mdoering
Type: Task
Summary: Think about the least intrusive way of dealing with Taiwan
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2013-09-27 13:30:03.731
Updated: 2014-01-08 17:18:40.695
        
Description: Currently we treat taiwan as node.type: "OTHER" with participationStatus: "ASSOCIATE
see http://apidev.gbif.org/node/e1b85abc-61f9-430f-ba79-6813dec53a0f

We have to add lots of hacks all over the portal and also inside the registry because it is not officially a country node. Would it be possible to hack in an earlier state and expose Taiwan as a country node in the webservices already? It would safe lots of hacks later on]]>