Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
Conference Abstract
|
Corresponding author: Diana Hernández-Robles (diana.hernandez@sp2000.org)
Received: 25 Aug 2023 | Published: 28 Aug 2023
© 2023 Diana Hernández-Robles, Camila Plata, Markus Döring, Olaf Bánki
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Hernández-Robles D, Plata C, Döring M, Bánki O (2023) Towards a More Comprehensive Catalogue of Life Checklist. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111684. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111684
|
|
The Catalogue of Life (COL) Checklist 2023 (
Despite all the global efforts over the past 27 years, there still remain significant gaps in the COL Checklist: incompleteness, outdated data in several taxonomic groups, lack of synonyms and a considerable time lag in being up-to-date with continuously published literature. However, there are not enough experts to check and update it as fast as new information is published e.g., descriptions of new species, covering lesser-known taxonomic groups, clarifying synonym relations, interpreting new classifications. For that reason, there is an intrinsic need to rely on a new process that combines:
Combining these elements would result in an extended release of the COL Checklist that is an enriched version, integrating a wider variety of taxonomic sources and informatic developments not considered previously. This process will feature sequential releases that will address different needs and will be useful for delivering taxonomic services for GBIF and ultimately replacing its backbone taxonomy (
taxonomy, species list, extended catalogue, taxonomic backbone, GBIF, ChecklistBank, COL Checklist
Diana Hernández-Robles
TDWG 2023
The BiCIKL project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action under grant agreement No 101007492.