Issues

• Rethink if we should add and ID to a name labels as matching ambiguous

  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1678 · Filter by author camiplata opened on Oct 23, 2026

• Matcher: a botanical name cited with only its basionym author is not matched

  matching
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1660 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Matcher: a supplied rank that contradicts the name blocks the match

  matching
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1649 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Oct 14, 2026

• A homonym note Carpenter, 1888 (non Carpenter, 1882) makes a synonym MISAPPLIED

  help wantedimporter
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1619 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Oct 10, 2026
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• Use bare names from well curated datasets to block incoming merge names

  assemblyfeature requesthelp wantedxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1604 · Filter by author camiplata opened on Sep 20, 2026

• GTDB sector configuration: NameType values do not match dataset and filtering causes an error

  assemblyhelp wanted
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1559 · Filter by author DianRHR opened on Aug 7, 2026
  3

  

• Include variations in authors in the authormap

  matching
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1557 · Filter by author DianRHR opened on Jul 22, 2026

• Duplicated names merge twice (or more) in XR

  assemblybugxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1555 · Filter by author DianRHR opened on Jul 20, 2026
  1

  

• Consolidate the duplicated Name model + NameFormatter with the gbif name-parser

  name parser
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1549 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Jul 13, 2026
  1

• Feature: Display file checksums on download pages

  feature request
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1644 · Filter by author J-Wall opened on Jul 13, 2026

• Improve merging to avoid misspellings

  assemblyfeature requestmatchingxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1492 · Filter by author DianRHR opened on Mar 20, 2026
  6

  

• Include synonyms in the nested sets

  dbfeature requestsearch
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1489 · Filter by author timrobertson100 opened on Mar 8, 2026
  1

• Flag ambiguous redlist status issue in releases

  feature requestxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1480 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Jan 10, 2026
  5

  

• Merging of references creates duplicates

  assemblybugxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1478 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Dec 7, 2025
  

• Feature: Improve fuzzy match

  feature requestlow prioritymatching
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1475 · Filter by author camiplata opened on Nov 19, 2025
  3

• Sort article sources by pub date

  assemblyfeature requestxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1474 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Nov 19, 2025

• Remove redundant references from XR

  assemblyxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1467 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Nov 9, 2025

• Create website screenshots as logo defaults

  feature requestlow prioritymetadata
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1465 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Nov 7, 2025
  1

• Bug: names merged from WFO showing source as WFO Pinopsida

  bugmetadataxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1527 · Filter by author DianRHR opened on Oct 8, 2025

• Families merged generating duplicates

  matchingxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1453 · Filter by author DianRHR opened on Sep 25, 2025
  5

  

• Elasticsearch queries slow

  low prioritysearch
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1445 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Aug 19, 2025

• Aggregate logs

  db
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1439 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Jul 9, 2025
  

• Register CLB datasets with GBIF registry

  gbifmetadata
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1438 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Jul 9, 2025
  

• Consider to merge name information regardless of status

  assemblyxrelease
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1429 · Filter by author mdoering opened on Jun 17, 2025
  

• Rework species estimates to be taxon related infos

  feature request
  CatalogueOfLife/backend#1412 · Filter by author mdoering opened on May 21, 2025