This is the NSL (National Species List) Services Application developed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in association with CHAH, the ALA and the IBIS team.
The NSL services provide a relatively generic set of services for searching Names, Refererences and Authors as well as accessing classification trees of taxons.
The NSL is (and probably always will be) a work in progress, we'll be adding a roadmap and more doco here as we go.
This code is Licensed under the Apache 2 License and we welcome contributions from the taxonomic community.
Please use Github issues for any bug reports.
For Australian NSL infrastructure we are splitting the ID ranges used across different known shards. This is not essential but it does mean we have a means to discriminate data sources on IDs if somehow we manage to loose track.
The current allocated ranges are:
- Vascular (APNI) 1000 - 10,000,000 + 50,000,001 - 60,000,000
- Moss 10,000,001 - 20,000,000
- Algae 20,000,001 - 30,000,000
- Lichen 30,000,001 - 40,000,000
- DAWR 40,000,001 - 50,000,000 (Aust. Dept. of Agriculture and Water Resources)
- Fungi 60,000,001 - 70,000,000
- AFD 70,000,001 - 80,000,000
There is a confluence page for the NSL infrastructure as well at https://www.anbg.gov.au/ibis25/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=NSL&title=NSL+Project+2.0