[COL-Users] Unstable COL identifiers in latest October release

[Markus Döring]

Thanks Erikjan.
There are 91 names in there with temporary identifiers. This is because these names are all bad names that we don’t want to assign stable ids to. Hope they will be cleared in future releases.

Markus


> On 28. Nov 2023, at 06:43, Erikjan Rijkers <er at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much.  There are still a few UUID-ish values but so few that it doesn't bother me (0.003 % of 5 million records as opposed to 25% in the October release)
> 
> May I take the opportunity to say that I am very happy that these files are available.  I query the data daily.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Erikjan Rijkers
> 
> 
> Op 11/27/23 om 12:12 schreef Markus Döring:
>> Hi Erikjan,
>> Indeed the linked files were wrongly using the “simple” cold and dwca format, which only contains the core data suitable for many use cases and which has become the default format for downloads. You need to specify extended=true in the API to get the former complete archive with vernacular names and the rest. We are missing a button in the UI though to selected the extended format and it only works in the API as of today. But we’ll provide a patch shortly.
>> I have relinked the COL cold & dwca downloads to the complete files, so please download them again if you need them.
>> Thanks,
>> Markus
>>> On 24. Nov 2023, at 17:06, Erikjan Rijkers <er at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Op 11/24/23 om 16:28 schreef Markus Döring via COL-Users:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am extremely glad to inform you that we have just published the new November edition of the Catalogue of Life Checklist, which has reverted its identifiers to use the previous stable and short ones as we used to know them:
>>>> <https://preview.catalogueoflife.org/2023/11/24/release>
>>> 
>>> Hi Markus,
>>> 
>>> The usual structure of files, with Taxon.tsv as the main one, is not in this download, and this new file looks quite a bit smaller, suspiciously so.  Is this as expected?
>>> 
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 1.3G Aug 17 21:41 20230817/Taxon.tsv
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 1.3G Sep 14 15:47 20230914/Taxon.tsv
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 325M Nov 24 12:25 20231124/dataset-278910.tsv
>>> 
>>> (files as always from https://download.checklistbank.org/col/ )
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> 
>>> Erikjan Rijkers
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Monthly Release November 2023<https://preview.catalogueoflife.org/2023/11/24/release>
>>>> preview.catalogueoflife.org<https://preview.catalogueoflife.org/2023/11/24/release>
>>>> [favicon.ico]<https://preview.catalogueoflife.org/2023/11/24/release>
>>>> Happy Thanksgiving!
>>>> Markus
>>>> On 27. Oct 2023, at 16:28, Markus Döring via COL-Users <col-users at lists.gbif.org> wrote:
>>>> Dear friends of COL,
>>>> we have released a new monthly October version recently that contains some bad identifiers:
>>>> https://doi.org/10.48580/df7lv
>>>> Some taxa have temporary identifiers in the UUID format, for example Apis mellifera:
>>>> https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/bc15e6bb-fe11-4a8c-ac6f-a1f7d9197066
>>>> The old identifier FN46 has been deleted. Luckily we provide tombstone pages for these so you can still resolve them and find their latest use:
>>>> https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/FN46
>>>> We are working hard to find the problem and fix it in the next release where these temporary identifiers will be replaced with their previous versions again.
>>>> Please do not store the temporary UUIDs as they will expire soon. Once resolved I will inform you all on this list. Meanwhile progress on this problem can be followed on github:
>>>> https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/general/issues/100
>>>> We are very sorry for the inconvenience, we just realised this today.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Markus
>>>> --
>>>> Markus Döring
>>>> GBIF & Catalogue of Life
>>>> Technical lead ChecklistBank.org
>>>> m.doering at gbif.org
>>>> http://www.checklistbank.org
>>>> https://www.catalogueoflife.org
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