Do you all have any plans on updating the published backbone dataset? http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c
- Alex On 04/25/2016 10:51 AM, Tim Robertson wrote: > Dear all, > > I am happy to let you know that the new backbone taxonomy has just > gone live. > > Real time indexing will be off until Wednesday morning CPH time (36hrs > from now) to allow us to roll back should any unforeseen issues spring > up. > > GBIF now have a mechanism in place to bring in changes to the backbone > taxonomy within weeks, as opposed to years. We anticipate the next > deployment of the backbone taxonomy to be in around 12 weeks from now. > > Congratulations to all involved with this work. > > All the best, > Tim > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org > <mailto:trobertson at gbif.org>> wrote: > > Dear GBIF API users, > > We are pleased to announce that we are preparing to move a new > taxonomic backbone into production. > > This is the first revision of the backbone for quite some years, > which will bring the GBIF backbone up to date with latest data > sources, such as the Catalogue of Life 2016 (January edition) > along with fixes for the many issues you have reported since 2013. > You can read more about the backbone taxonomy rewriting on > http://gbif.blogspot.com/2016/04/updating-gbif-backbone.html > > This requires some significant processing within the GBIF.org > system as we'll be rerunning all quality control routines on all > data - this means other improvements may also take effect across > older data. While GBIF.org will remain operational to users > during this time, crawling will be paused. We expect to start > this process today, and during next week the changes will be > visible in production, after which crawling will resume. > > Thank you all for your patience, and providing the data, feedback > and submitting the issues that have allowed this. > > We'll report here as changes come into effect. > > More soon, > The GBIF dev team > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org <mailto:API-users at lists.gbif.org> > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20160425/3aa53788/attachment.html>
