Getting occurrence downloads interpreted under COL XR instead of the Backbone

Data Use
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Hello,
Now that COL XR is the primary taxonomy, I’d like my occurrence downloads to be interpreted under COL XR rather than the legacy Backbone. Three questions:

  1. Web interface — On the occurrence-search UI, is there a way to choose COL XR vs the GBIF Backbone for searching and downloading? I couldn’t find a control. A GUI download I made (DOI 10.15468/dl.8p5rkr) recorded no checklistKey and came back Backbone-interpreted (integer taxonKey values).
  2. Download content — If I supply the COL XR checklistKey (7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b) on a Darwin Core Archive download, do the taxonomy columns in occurrence.txt (taxonKey, scientificName, kingdom…genus) then carry COL XR identifiers? Or are those columns always Backbone, with COL XR available only through the API classifications?
  3. Recommendation — For a reproducible, file-based workflow that should use COL XR as its taxonomy, what’s the recommended way to get a COL XR-native occurrence extract?
    Thanks!
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Dear Peter,

Right now, we are in the middle of changing the web portal to allow downloads using the XRCoL, we hope to finish this migration in the next days this week.

  1. Once the new portal is live, by default all downloads will be done with CoL and the interpretation will be the result of CoL taxonomy, but you will be able to choose GBIF backbone taxonomy if you want.
  2. Yes, the taxonomy columns will have the CoL identifiers, both in the UI and if you use the API.
  3. You can do a standard download using the UI and it will have the XR CoL native information.