Hello GRSciColl friends,

Many of you attended our GRSciColl community call two weeks ago, thank you very much! If you missed it, you can watch the recording herehttps://vimeo.com/936568304 and follow up on our on-going DOI and identifier-related discussion herehttps://discourse.gbif.org/t/preferred-identifiers-for-grscicoll-entries-should-we-mint-dois-for-collections/4403/5.

I also want to announce some changes to the GRSciColl API (see the current documentation herehttps://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/v1/registry#/Collections). These changes will affect scripts and website that use the GRSciColl part of the API, you will need to adapt them.

Here are the changes:

* The following fields will be discarded: indexHerbariorum, institution geographicDescription, institution taxonomicDescription, citesPermitNumber (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/545) * The following fields are lists: types, institutionalGovernances, catalogueUrls, apiUrls (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/550) * The following fields will be using vocabularieshttps://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/v1/vocabulary instead of enumerationshttps://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/#enumerations: types, institutionalGovernances, discipline, contentType, preservationType, accessionStatus (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/549) * The collection “geography” field is renamed “geographicCoverage” (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/551) * New fields are added: collection temporalCovergage, featuredImageUrl, featuredImageLicense (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/552)

These changes are part of the implementation of the GRSciColl road map 2023/2024https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/road-map. We will deploy them on the 20th of May 2024.

In addition to that, we are considering adding a section for resources from/for the community on the GRSciColl website. If you have made videos or documents for your communities (especially in other languages than english) and you are interested in sharing them on the website, please let me know!

Let me know if you have any question. All the best, Marie

-- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean@gbif.orgmailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.orghttp://www.gbif.org/