The Catalogue of Life| COL
We are pleased to announce that a new version of the Catalogue of Life, containing additional information and data sources is now live on our website! The mission of Catalogue of Life is to forge a global community that manages an authoritative catalogue of species, through an infrastructure that supports open data publishing and use. The Catalogue of Life is currently assembled from around 17500 instead of from 168 data sources originally. These data sources integrate data from global, regio...| COL
The Catalogue of Life continues its mission in building the most comprehensive and authoritative list of all known species on Earth. This should serve as an essential foundation for biodiversity research, conservation, and policy. With contributions from hundreds of taxonomic experts worldwide, the Catalogue of Life 2025 includes over 2.2 million extant species. While gaps remain in some groups, this year the total number of names in the Catalogue has grown by 2%, with 48,766 newly accepted s...| COL
The Catalogue of Life Consortium mourns the tragic loss of Monalisa Cachuela-Palacio, who passed away on 13th October 2024. She was a wonderful person, a highly professional colleague and our nice friend. Mona was in our team at the very beginning of the Catalogue of Life. The image is showing Mona visiting the Catalogue of Life office at the University of Reading (Reading, UK), on the 9th of November 2004 (seated Frank Bisby, Monalisa Cachuela-Palacio; standing Yury Roskov, Susanah Kimani, P...| COL
Permanent identifier: https://doi.org/10.48580/dg9ld Catalogue of Life (COL) is an assembly of expert-based global species checklists with the aim to build a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth. As a global consortium, we aim to address the needs of researchers, policy-makers, environmental managers and the wider public for a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species. We are happy to announce that we have just published the Catalogue o...| COL
The GBIF Secretariat and Species 2000 have signed an agreement for GBIF to serve as the host for the Species 2000 Secretariat starting on 1 January 2024. The agreement will strengthen their collaboration on both the Catalogue of Life (COL) and ChecklistBank, while both COL and GBIF will remain independent organizations with their own missions, governance and identities. The complementary missions of COL and GBIF are reflected in more than two decades of collaboration between the organizations...| COL
Catalogue of Life is a collaboration and data resource with the aim for a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species. It’s been in existence for over 27 years. At present 2,1 million described species are covered. A global community of more than 500 taxonomic experts is involved. The Catalogue of Life infrastructure, ChecklistBank, contains close to 50k openly accessible taxonomic datasets. It also offers tooling for comparing taxonomic datasets and for building sp...| COL
Annual release 2023 of the Catalogue of Life| COL
BHL is seeking new hosting partners| COL
Adding COL releases as works to your ORCID profile| COL
A new vision for ‘liberating’ data from biodiversity publications| COL