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rcol: an R client for the Catalogue of Life

A new R package, rcol, brings Catalogue of Life name matching, taxon and dataset lookups, tree navigation and the ChecklistBank parsers straight into R — modelled on rgbif and taxadb.

Data repository

Storing all dataset archives

COL identifiers

Stable name identifiers for the Catalogue of Life

COL stable identifiers

Stable identifiers for the Catalogue of Life

COL User Mailinglist

The COL User Mailinglist keeps you updated on API, infrastructure & content changes

New Catalogue of Life infrastructure Live

The new Catalogue of Life (COL) infrastructure is live on GBIF servers