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UK Overseas Territories Alien Species website work - https://dev-ceh-ukotas.pantheonsite.io/
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Catalogue of Life API not functional #31

Open johnvanbreda opened 7 months ago

johnvanbreda commented 7 months ago

The previously used API for the CoL API (webservice.catalogueoflife.org) now returns an error 503 stating that it is temporarily disabled. This is preventing taxa being linked to a taxonomic hierarchy so new taxa will not appear in the browser, plus the CoL search tool in the add species UI will not work.

johnvanbreda commented 7 months ago

I've switched to using the GBIF API to get the taxon hierarchy direct from the backbone. Leaving open as the GBIF API does not provide the online resource or global distribution and the code is not doing the same check for CoL name updates as before.