The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. To achieve it, its assembly process comprises two major phases.\nThe first phase brings together information curated and verified by experts specifically for the Catalogue of Life at a global level. \nThe result of this phase, the Base Release, is a dataset published monthly and annually. \nCurrent and historical versions are available for use and consultation on [Catalogue of Life’s website](https://www.catalogueoflife.org/) as well as its infrastructure,\n[ChecklistBank](https://www.checklistbank.org/).\n\nThe second phase builds on the Base Release 2026-08-20 (COL26.8) by programmatically integrating additional information from 62334 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural\nsources - global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists), as well as from digitised literature available through ChecklistBank.\nThe result of this phase, the Extended Release (COL XR), is a separate dataset published monthly and annually.\n\nThe Extended Release is the current taxonomic framework used by [GBIF](https://www.gbif.org/). It addresses several gaps in the Base Release and enriches \nexisting names with additional information such as authorships, references and vernacular names. It also incorporates molecular data, including barcode index numbers \nand operational taxon units. Higher-level taxonomy is added only for selected groups with significant gaps.\nThe additional information included in COL XR is easily identified on the Catalogue of Life website using the XR icon. When downloading the dataset, or subsets of it, \nthe 'merged' field can be used to distinguish integrated information from content originating in the Base Release. The original content contributed through the Catalogue of Life Base Release\nis preserved, while additional information is integrated alongside it.\n\nUsers interested in the expert-curated source catalogue without additional programmatic integrations should consult the Catalogue of Life Base Release.\nThis enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoes ongoing quality-control checks by COL editors and the wider community.\nDue to the programmatic nature of COL XR, as well as taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise.\nUsers are encouraged to report suspected issues through the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). \nWe will do our best to resolve reported issues as soon as possible.
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\nIt is updated regulary through an automated process in which the Catalogue of Life acts as a starting point also providing the complete higher classification above families. Additional scientific names only found in other authoritative nomenclatural and taxonomic datasets are then merged into the tree, thus extending the original catalogue and broadening the backbones name coverage. The GBIF Backbone taxonomy also includes identifiers for Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) drawn from the barcoding resources iBOL and UNITE.
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eBird is a collective enterprise that takes a novel approach to citizen science by developing cooperative partnerships among experts in a wide range of fields: population ecologists, conservation biologists, quantitative ecologists, statisticians, computer scientists, GIS and informatics specialists, application developers, and data administrators. Managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology eBird’s goal is to increase data quantity through participant recruitment and engagement globally, but also to quantify and control for data quality issues such as observer variability, imperfect detection of species, and both spatial and temporal bias in data collection. eBird data are openly available and used by a broad spectrum of students, teachers, scientists, NGOs, government agencies, land managers, and policy makers. The result is that eBird has become a major source of biodiversity data, increasing our knowledge of the dynamics of species distributions, and having a direct impact on the conservation of birds and their habitats.
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