Yeah, I've definitely run into some issues with {shinymeta}, but I'm hoping I can get through them with enough tinkering. I'll have to check out {shinyscholar}!

Definitely looks like there's some overlap in design and intention, but I think paleopal is at a slightly lower level with individual workflow steps compared to entire modules in {wallace}.

I'll take a look, thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it! And we totally agree this is important! While not called out by name in the paper, palaeoverse::tax_check() and fossilbrush::check_taxonomy() can be really useful for flagging misspellings of taxa like you describe here.

Hit me up if you're interested in getting involved! I'm also happy to chat your ear off about paleopal and other #opensource and #openscience initiatives I've got going on in paleontology.

I'm building a new webapp that enables users to build 100% reproducible workflows for paleontological data science with zero technical experience. It's still a work-in-progress, but I'm hoping to work with potential users and other computational paleontologists to make it as useful as possible.