[COL-Users] Question about Catalogue of Life (COL) Data Package file format

[Cheng, Tiejun (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]]

Dear COL team,

I'm trying to download the ColDP Archive of THE COL CHECKLIST VERSION 2021-09-21 on this page: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/download. However, the actual download link https://download.catalogueoflife.org/col/monthly/2021-09-21_coldp.zip is not working and returns 404. I am able to find another data file here: https://download.catalogueoflife.org/col/. The most recent one I believe is https://download.catalogueoflife.org/col/latest_coldp.zip with a timestamp of 2021-08-27 11:00.

According to the description of ColDP file format here: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/about/colusage#data-formats. The ZIP archive is supposed to bundle the following delimited text files:

  *   Name<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#name>
  *   NameRelation<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#namerelation>
  *   Taxon<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#taxon>
  *   Synonym<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#synonym>
  *   NameUsage<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#nameusage>
  *   Reference<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#reference>
  *   TypeMaterial<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#typematerial>
  *   Distribution<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#distribution>
  *   VernacularName<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#vernacularname>
  *   Media<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#media>
  *   SpeciesInteraction<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#speciesinteraction>
  *   TaxonConceptRelation<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#taxonconceptrelation>
  *   SpeciesEstimate<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#speciesestimate>
  *   Treatments<https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/coldp/blob/master/README.md#treatment>

However, In the latest_coldp.zip I downloaded, I got something different.

$zipinfo -1 latest_coldp.zip

  *   NameUsage.tsv
  *   NameRelation.tsv
  *   TypeMaterial.tsv
  *   VernacularName.tsv
  *   Distribution.tsv
  *   Media.tsv
  *   SpeciesEstimate.tsv
  *   SpeciesInteraction.tsv
  *   TaxonConceptRelation.tsv
  *   Reference.tsv
  *   reference.json (<- this is new)

Some important files are missing.

  *   Name
  *   Taxon
  *   Synomym
  *   Treatments

Could you please help understand it? Thanks.

Best regards,

Tiejun CHENG, Ph.D.
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