Dear colleagues Some recent developments that might be of interest to this community. They all have to do with improved access to taxonomic literature * https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisentisroadmap.org%2F&data%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C77872ef461ec48f62bf708dd6172ac70%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638773867348326215%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=G6icyc6fN719tAQe89vZ%2FnphC7tO%2Fzcg9oZDzeMC%2F0A%3D&reserved=0 a decadal plan to open up biodiversity literature, following the previous Bouchout Declaration in 2024. 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BDJ hosted portal https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.bdj.pensoft.net%2F&data%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C77872ef461ec48f62bf708dd6172ac70%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638773867348524488%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=M0sHb%2F4%2FTTMowHfAvFTntTnFKUf%2F7ZoAoc7vsgtBCJs%3D&reserved=0 both are based on the conversion of unstructured data in publications * A direct workflow of data from 160 taxonomic journals currently being converted into semantically enriched data and imported into the extended Catalogue of Life 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