SD: Maintainance of Codelist (EU-Nomen)

[Dnoack49]

Dear all,

we are currently working on the INSPIRE schema transformation of species data in the German State of Brandenburg. These belong to the annex theme "Species Distribution".
For the data transformation in to the feature type SpeciesDistributionUnit , the interoperable INSPIRE implementation specification requires an assignment to 3 possible code lists for the attributes referenceSpeciesScheme and referenceSpeciesID- either EU-Nomen, EUNIS, or Natura2000. Since EU-Nomen contains the most entries, it is recommended to use it.
Now, I have received information from colleagues that the EU-Nomen database / website is no longer maintained and that entries for species are no longer being updated. Iam not sure if that is correct. Could you please confirm the current status and get back to me?

Kind regards

[Dnoack49]

I have contacted the support of EU-Nomen and their response was:

While it is true that there is currently no formal budget/project that funds PESI/EU-Nomen, VLIZ will keep on maintaining the infrastructure as-is & in-kind.
Very recently, and on a voluntary basis, we have agreed with our partner BGBM (Andreas, in CC) to compile a new update of PESI, via it’s component databases
(ERMS, E+M PlantBase, Fauna Europaea & Index Fungorum, which have almost all been kept up to date in the meanwhile)
This is expected to happen in the next few months.

therefore I close this issue.

[sMorrone]

@Dnoack49 thank you for sharing EU-Nomen reply. I think this is interesting for the community, so I am now converting this issue into discussion for more visibility.