Crawling paused and new taxonomic backbone
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Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
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Brilliant Tim! Thanks!
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson trobertson@gbif.org wrote:
Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
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Awesome! Couldn't come at a better time.
On 14 April 2016 at 12:24, Eduardo Dalcin edalcin@jbrj.org wrote:
Brilliant Tim! Thanks!
*Eduardo Dalcin http://eduardo.dalc.in* Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro - JBRJ e-mail: edalcin@jbrj.org Trabalho / Work: +55 21 3204 2116 WhatsApp / Telegram: +55 21 98393 3344
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson trobertson@gbif.org wrote:
Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
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Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just gone live.
Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring up.
GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now.
Congratulations to all involved with this work.
All the best, Tim
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson <trobertson@gbif.orgmailto:trobertson@gbif.org> wrote: Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
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Do you all have any plans on updating the published backbone dataset?
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
- Alex
On 04/25/2016 10:51 AM, Tim Robertson wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just gone live.
Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring up.
GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now.
Congratulations to all involved with this work.
All the best, Tim
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson <trobertson@gbif.org mailto:trobertson@gbif.org> wrote:
Dear GBIF API users, We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production. This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume. Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this. We'll report here as changes come into effect. More soon, The GBIF dev team _______________________________________________ API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org <mailto:API-users@lists.gbif.org> http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
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oh yes, indeed we forgot about that! A basic version is available here without any “extensions”: http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.csv.gz
Markus
On 25 Apr 2016, at 17:07, Alex Thompson godfoder@acis.ufl.edu wrote:
Do you all have any plans on updating the published backbone dataset?
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
- Alex
On 04/25/2016 10:51 AM, Tim Robertson wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just gone live.
Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring up.
GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now.
Congratulations to all involved with this work.
All the best, Tim
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson trobertson@gbif.org wrote: Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
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Hi Markus,
Would it be possible to get this as a taxonomic DarwinCore archive, also with the vernacular names? Just like the previous version?
Cheers, Jörg
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: API-users [mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org] Im Auftrag von Markus Döring Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2016 17:34 An: Alex Thompson Cc: api-users@lists.gbif.org Betreff: Re: [API-users] Crawling paused and new taxonomic backbone
oh yes, indeed we forgot about that! A basic version is available here without any "extensions": http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.csv.gz
Markus
On 25 Apr 2016, at 17:07, Alex Thompson godfoder@acis.ufl.edu wrote:
Do you all have any plans on updating the published backbone dataset?
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
- Alex
On 04/25/2016 10:51 AM, Tim Robertson wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just gone live.
Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring up.
GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now.
Congratulations to all involved with this work.
All the best, Tim
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson trobertson@gbif.org wrote: Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
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Hi Jörg, yes, I am working on that soon: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2816
Until then you can find an archive with just the core taxonomic data here: http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.csv.gz
best, Markus
On 02 May 2016, at 17:16, Holetschek, Jörg <J.Holetschek@bgbm.orgmailto:J.Holetschek@bgbm.org> wrote:
Hi Markus,
Would it be possible to get this as a taxonomic DarwinCore archive, also with the vernacular names? Just like the previous version?
Cheers, Jörg
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: API-users [mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org] Im Auftrag von Markus Döring Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2016 17:34 An: Alex Thompson Cc: api-users@lists.gbif.orgmailto:api-users@lists.gbif.org Betreff: Re: [API-users] Crawling paused and new taxonomic backbone
oh yes, indeed we forgot about that! A basic version is available here without any "extensions": http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.csv.gz
Markus
On 25 Apr 2016, at 17:07, Alex Thompson godfoder@acis.ufl.edu wrote:
Do you all have any plans on updating the published backbone dataset?
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
- Alex
On 04/25/2016 10:51 AM, Tim Robertson wrote: Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just gone live.
Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring up.
GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now.
Congratulations to all involved with this work.
All the best, Tim
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson trobertson@gbif.org wrote: Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
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Hi Jörg,
I have created a new backbone export as a DwC-A with vernacular names, multimedia, distributions, references and descriptions: http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.dwca.gz
The EML is not fully up to date yet and Im still refining the archive to also have “constituent” metadata, i.e. for each primary source we used for assembling the backbone we will add also an EML file - just as we do for the Catalogue of Life.
The new export feature can soon also be used to retrieve other datasets in a normalised format.
Markus
On 02 May 2016, at 17:16, Holetschek, Jörg j.holetschek@bgbm.org wrote:
Hi Markus,
Would it be possible to get this as a taxonomic DarwinCore archive, also with the vernacular names? Just like the previous version?
Cheers, Jörg
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: API-users [mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org] Im Auftrag von Markus Döring Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2016 17:34 An: Alex Thompson Cc: api-users@lists.gbif.org Betreff: Re: [API-users] Crawling paused and new taxonomic backbone
oh yes, indeed we forgot about that! A basic version is available here without any "extensions": http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.csv.gz
Markus
On 25 Apr 2016, at 17:07, Alex Thompson godfoder@acis.ufl.edu wrote:
Do you all have any plans on updating the published backbone dataset?
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
- Alex
On 04/25/2016 10:51 AM, Tim Robertson wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just gone live.
Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring up.
GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now.
Congratulations to all involved with this work.
All the best, Tim
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson trobertson@gbif.org wrote: Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
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Thanks a lot, Markus!
Jörg
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Hi Jörg,
I have created a new backbone export as a DwC-A with vernacular names, multimedia, distributions, references and descriptions: http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.dwca.gz
The EML is not fully up to date yet and Im still refining the archive to also have “constituent” metadata, i.e. for each primary source we used for assembling the backbone we will add also an EML file - just as we do for the Catalogue of Life.
The new export feature can soon also be used to retrieve other datasets in a normalised format.
Markus
On 02 May 2016, at 17:16, Holetschek, Jörg j.holetschek@bgbm.org wrote:
Hi Markus,
Would it be possible to get this as a taxonomic DarwinCore archive, also with the vernacular names? Just like the previous version?
Cheers, Jörg
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: API-users [mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org] Im Auftrag von Markus Döring Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2016 17:34 An: Alex Thompson Cc: api-users@lists.gbif.org Betreff: Re: [API-users] Crawling paused and new taxonomic backbone
oh yes, indeed we forgot about that! A basic version is available here without any "extensions": http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-2016-04-13.csv.gz
Markus
On 25 Apr 2016, at 17:07, Alex Thompson godfoder@acis.ufl.edu wrote:
Do you all have any plans on updating the published backbone dataset?
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
- Alex
On 04/25/2016 10:51 AM, Tim Robertson wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just gone live.
Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring up.
GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now.
Congratulations to all involved with this work.
All the best, Tim
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson trobertson@gbif.org wrote: Dear GBIF API users,
We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new taxonomic backbone into production.
This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html
This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all data - this means other improvements may also take effect across older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start this process today, and during next week the changes will be visible in production, after which crawling will resume.
Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback and submitting the issues that have allowed this.
We'll report here as changes come into effect.
More soon, The GBIF dev team
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Dear all,
I am pleased to let you know that we have just deployed a new backbone taxonomy, which includes reorganising all occurrence data to the backbone. Most importantly this has fixed many incorrect synonymized species, especially in large plant families. Additionally, there are several bug fixes in interpretation, and a lot of improvements to the date handling which have been included in this reprocess.
We have summarised all major changes and new metrics in a blog post: http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/08/gbif-backbone-august-2016-update.html
Crawling will remain off until tomorrow, as we verify everything is as we expect.
With regards, Markus
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Great Job! It's nice to see the time investment you put into re-working the backbone infrastructure paying off. Any ETA on updating the DwC-A version at http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-current.zip ?
- Alex
On 08/08/2016 09:25 AM, Markus Döring wrote:
Dear all,
I am pleased to let you know that we have just deployed a new backbone taxonomy, which includes reorganising all occurrence data to the backbone. Most importantly this has fixed many incorrect synonymized species, especially in large plant families. Additionally, there are several bug fixes in interpretation, and a lot of improvements to the date handling which have been included in this reprocess.
We have summarised all major changes and new metrics in a blog post: http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/08/gbif-backbone-august-2016-update.html
Crawling will remain off until tomorrow, as we verify everything is as we expect.
With regards, Markus
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Thanks Alex,
the current backbone export is hosted here: http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/2016-07-25/
I have just updated the current symlink to point to that archive, thanks for reminding! http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-current.zip
Markus
On 08 Aug 2016, at 15:53, godfoder <godfoder@acis.ufl.edumailto:godfoder@acis.ufl.edu> wrote:
Great Job! It's nice to see the time investment you put into re-working the backbone infrastructure paying off. Any ETA on updating the DwC-A version at http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-current.zip ?
- Alex
On 08/08/2016 09:25 AM, Markus Döring wrote: Dear all,
I am pleased to let you know that we have just deployed a new backbone taxonomy, which includes reorganising all occurrence data to the backbone. Most importantly this has fixed many incorrect synonymized species, especially in large plant families. Additionally, there are several bug fixes in interpretation, and a lot of improvements to the date handling which have been included in this reprocess.
We have summarised all major changes and new metrics in a blog post: http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/08/gbif-backbone-august-2016-update.html
Crawling will remain off until tomorrow, as we verify everything is as we expect.
With regards, Markus
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Alex Thompson
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Eduardo Dalcin
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godfoder
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Holetschek, Jörg
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Markus Döring
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Peter Desmet
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Tim Robertson