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April 2025

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TaxonWorks Together 2025 - Registration open and free! (TWT2025 May 6 - 8)
by Deborah Paul 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Greetings COL Community, RE: TaxonWorks Together 2025 <https://together.taxonworks.org/> - Registration open and free! It's May 6 - 8. ‪This year's #TWT2025 offers topics local-to-planetary and relevant to COL contributors. Please see below a few TWT2025 session themes here to entice you to have a look-see and join us. Please check the agenda for speakers and panelists <https://together.taxonworks.org/> and details and times for each session. * taxonomy * data migration * systematic research tools * field stations and collections * collections track disease * research software engineering * TaxonWorks 101 * AI-informatics * software and services * eDNA * geoSpatial data Most sessions are moderated discussions with opportunities for your input. Hear from people that inspire us, and take part in the on-line conversation that pervades throughout. We welcome everyone and look forward to seeing you there. In anticipation, Debbie, for the SFG and TWT2025 /PS -- *please (please) share with your colleagues and students far and wide, thanks!* PPS -- yes there is cross-posting :-)/ -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- Natural History Collections and Museomics NHCM Editor-in-Chiefhttps://nhcm.pensoft.net -- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Past Chair 2021-2022 -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Eventshttps://speciesfilegroup.org

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Removal of old monthly COL releases
by Markus Döring 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Dear users of the Catalogue of Life, Since we started to use the new checklistbank.org infrastructure COL has released new versions every month since. We have always promised to keep these releases available in ChecklistBank for at least a year, but differently to the Annual Releases, we never planned to keep them forever. Finally we will now start deleting old monthly releases if they have exceeded one year, starting with the oldest releases from 2020-2023. https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset?releasedFrom=3&sortBy=created Both the alias and version of a COL release tells you whether it is a long term supported (LTS) annual release which we will keep forever, or a monthly one. If you need stable links to immutable content, we recommend to use the annual editions of COL. Otherwise identifiers of names in COL are stable and will resolve to the same name in subsequent versions, both monthly and annual. Their status, classification and associated information can change over time though. There will still be the option to download binary archives (coldp & dwca) of all monthly releases of COL once they have been deleted in ChecklistBank: https://download.checklistbank.org/col/ With best wishes, Markus -- Markus Döring GBIF & Catalogue of Life https://www.checklistbank.org https://www.catalogueoflife.org

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