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<div class="">we have just put live a new November edition of the Catalogue of Life. This monthly update is special for a variety of reasons:</div>
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<div class="">1) It is only available through the new infrastructure, i.e. the COL Portal, API and COL ChecklistBank.</div>
<div class="">We have stopped converting the data back into the legacy database structure driving the old Annual Checklist (AC) interface.</div>
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<div class="">2) It uses a new set of identifiers. These are still preliminary and under review in this release and will change with the next release due in a few weeks.</div>
<div class="">With that next release though, they will remain stable and we will then also provide a mapping from the previous hash based identifers.</div>
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<div class="">3) It is exposed for the first time through the new COL Portal which is getting closer to have all major features in place to replace the old AC interface.</div>
<div class="">It also hosts and gives dynamic access to all previous annual editions with their original interface at that time.</div>
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<div class="">Please consider this still a beta version. There are still many things to improve, but we think this is a first useful version with all essential features in place and we are happy to receive feedback on bugs, missing features or other kind of
enhancements. With the next major release we will also move the new software back to the old and final domain
<a href="http://catalogueoflife.org" class="">catalogueoflife.org</a> and deprecate <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">catalogue.life.</span></div>
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<div class="">COL Portal: </div>
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<div class="">COL ChecklistBank </div>
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<div class="">COL API:</div>
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://api.catalogue.life/" class="">https://api.catalogue.life/</a></div>
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://api.catalogue.life/dataset/3LR" class="">https://api.catalogue.life/dataset/3LR</a></div>
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<div class="">Feedback:</div>
<div class=""><a href="mailto:feedback@catalogueoflife.org" class="">feedback@catalogueoflife.org</a></div>
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