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5 months ago Latest info from @NicBailly:
From: Bailly, Nicolas Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 21:44 Subject: Replies to github message https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/615#issuecomment-1904062212
Sorry cannot access GitHub, maybe I set up the 2 steps identification but not sure on which comouter I had kept the keys
• How we can get data in CoLDP format (it would be an ideal solution)? I have issues related to internal management of IDs. That is complicated and would involve much work. I will give it a last try, and then come back to previous IDs, but I am much reluctant for a number of reasons.
• Could FishBase API be used for data import in the Checklistbank? You would get only scientific names, not distribution not common names.
• What is a current state of 3-years old plans to migrate FishBase data in Aphia? It has been stalled as I discovered many issues during the upload from FB to WoRMS. It comes from the facts that the import 2 or 3 years ago was moderately well done by a student in WoRMS who introduced a number of errors, and also that data are also entered in WoRMS and I have hard time to maintain the synchronization, despite many attempts to detect all errors, which takes a lot of time, and also, it depends now depending of the evolution FB-ECoF …
• What is a current state of a plan on marriage of Eschmeyer's Catalog and FishBase? … that was delayed, ...
I am going to the Philippines for 2 weeks in two weeks where I will take the final decision and progress on the CoLDP format and we will dliver by the end of March. Talk to you soon.
FishBase was last updated in CoL in Feb 2018 / 2018-02-15, as part of AC18. Dataset was migrated in CLB in Nov 2019 as part of AC19.