The Catalogue of Life Data Package - A new format for exchanging nomenclatural and taxonomic information

By

Döring, Markus
Ower, Geoffrey

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-8-8

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

3

Pages

1--2

Subjects

CoL , data exchange , Nomenclature , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.38771

 

Abstract

The Catalogue of Life Data Package (COLDP) format was developed to overcome limitations existing in currently used formats for sharing taxonomic information, namely Darwin Core Archives (DwC-A) and the Catalogue of Life (CoL) submission format also known as the Annual Checklist Exchange Format (ACEF). The tabular text based format, strongly influenced by DwC-A and ACEF, was designed to work with the Frictionless Data Package specification, but includes support for other well established formats like BibTeX and CSL-JSON for literature citations. It is the recommended exchange format for data published to, and downloaded from, the CoL Clearinghouse.