Biodiversity Collections Index - Transition site

The Biodiversity Collection Index is in the process of merging with the Biorepositories.org to form the Global Registry of Biological Repositories. This will reduce duplication of effort and secure long term maintenance of the data.

It was intended that the merger would be complete before the end of 2012 but there have been delays and the new combined system isn't quite ready. Unfortunately in the interim period the hosting of the original BCI site has expired and resources are not available to keep it going. This transition site has therefore been established to ensure that the data remains available for download and the web services (particularly the stable URIs and LSIDs) continue to function. It is not possible to support editing of the data at present but the new system should be up and running within a few weeks (as of 2013-04-26).

Comma separated snapshots of the data for download

• lookup_lsid.csv contains a list of all collections in BCI, their LSIDs and information from the community records including the preferred code. Use this file if you need to develop a general lookup service to populate your data with LSIDs.
• lookup_code.csv contains a list of all the unique codes in the system (including those not in community records) and their corresponding LSIDs. Use this if you currently have a list of codes and wish to convert or augment them with BCI LSIDs.
• location.csv contains a list of the locations as used internally. It is and extended version of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes list.

The CSV files are UTF-8 encoded

HTTP URIs and LSIDs

HTTP URIs and LSIDs should continue to function as before. If you have problems with resolving the identifiers associated with BCI collections please email Roger Hyam.

Thank you for your patience while we move through this transition phase.