DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17914445
title: Plazi Treatments XML Archive hash://sha256/48971c086aaa72674e50e9bc1e96d114831a91e54beab5b10c17fd6c21e556f0 hash://md5/12b23ae20479b66dc8b22f2b7cdd705c

description: Plazi is an association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi will:



Maintain a digital taxonomic literature repository to enable archiving of taxonomic treatments.

Enhance submitted taxonomic treatments by creating TaxonX and Taxpub XML versions.

Participate in the development of new models for publishing taxonomic treatments in order to maximize interoperability with other relevant cyberinfrastructure components (e.g., name servers, biodiversity resources, etc...)

Advocate and educate about the vital importance of maintaining free and open access to scientific discourse and data


This publication contains a snapshots of the XML data associated with over 300,000 taxonomic literature indexed as captured by Preston, a biodiversity dataset tracker. 

 
description: clone this repository in an empty directory using:

preston clone https://zenodo.org/record/17914445/files

Then, run the command

preston history

to verify the following result 

<hash://sha256/48971c086aaa72674e50e9bc1e96d114831a91e54beab5b10c17fd6c21e556f0> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/5b192bcf903eedbd53205d152c6fec79e46b1b0c5a3c45ae6e4874eb7eacc0dc> .<hash://sha256/5b192bcf903eedbd53205d152c6fec79e46b1b0c5a3c45ae6e4874eb7eacc0dc> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/b6304bbd46d55aad437cee2e36625a5e54ec5aa5ea82e05fc4c765ca2f29e06a> .<hash://sha256/b6304bbd46d55aad437cee2e36625a5e54ec5aa5ea82e05fc4c765ca2f29e06a> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/907a736593074730e15fe592d41c7a58708d841a9de306eb40e65c95ae94d188> .<hash://sha256/907a736593074730e15fe592d41c7a58708d841a9de306eb40e65c95ae94d188> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/3cfd60b8b19e76d208377537835de92efdb5b945a6a71765b74ed2fe22298b42> .<urn:uuid:0659a54f-b713-4f86-a917-5be166a14110> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/3cfd60b8b19e76d208377537835de92efdb5b945a6a71765b74ed2fe22298b42> .

Note that running

preston alias 

will produce a list of resource locations (and their sha256 digital fingerprints) associated with this archive as follows:

<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/9618479b44a8a538211827f1b40d998478f1a992de22fc14044854d6a21d1628> <urn:uuid:4e8e49b1-96a8-4d17-a86d-07971a4408e1> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.monthly.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/3b71a21d5890319d940b1bb75f7545207057ddcd6df318c3022623d51f9bc7da> <urn:uuid:0463eaf1-0644-49bc-9229-1092670c4b2c> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.weekly.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/f2761ad8e586199d4a50b282009b1a85826d932360ae6f734b19986d680dcf61> <urn:uuid:b6b77fba-51b7-445a-b5f0-189761343b08> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.daily.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/cf5eebcc494b7ca70843574adff34a4c973ca3aff9b8498ef6c9be475add946d> <urn:uuid:0b8f6891-d9c3-411d-99fa-e3201479f7ee> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/d2cead505bf51ecc18ef751a9d31694cb7597d7fb957287189e959bf71acee76> <urn:uuid:37357594-080c-4263-b113-cc7546126e44> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.monthly.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/6bfeab022f669270abab3e91125aee25eb009d10ab33f72fe3d6009f364e39e7> <urn:uuid:ff8b0dba-582d-41f4-8b41-82b8ae859255> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.weekly.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/ba7fb0744855224b4adcb84b248b840e82857be793ffabaaac49e7d216c06d96> <urn:uuid:f63226d7-bbcd-4432-9b9b-97b98717494c> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.daily.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/cb1f20a699f8074cd353fecf76da5cecbd3700aa29d1093c55f7a208c2b0e1c5> <urn:uuid:cfb8972c-a065-4904-98e7-d862c334997f> .<https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.daily.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/cb1f20a699f8074cd353fecf76da5cecbd3700aa29d1093c55f7a208c2b0e1c5> <urn:uuid:97a7dde7-45c1-4d09-886d-0a285f6fc073> .<https://github.com/plazi/treatments-xml/archive/master.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/c37add56f855607de5cbcd9d47d96346454e203559de66a15c30427e1fe172fb> <urn:uuid:bc3a0027-b52e-4111-9421-0891e4f85c53> .<https://github.com/plazi/treatments-xml/archive/master.zip> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/56caf9620cd58df6fb517dfb7cd01e2e81e54a41eef2f562c5eddfbd70ba6197> <urn:uuid:a7aaf0f3-567e-4dd7-9ec7-e24cbb33516c> .
description: Note that the resources in the publication are stored using their fingerprint as a filename. This is to avoid name conflicts for different version of a resource with the same filename. 




location
date
fingerprint


https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.xml.zip
2025-12-12
hash://sha256/9618479b44a8a538211827f1b40d998478f1a992de22fc14044854d6a21d1628


https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.monthly.xml.zip
2025-12-12
hash://sha256/3b71a21d5890319d940b1bb75f7545207057ddcd6df318c3022623d51f9bc7da


https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.weekly.xml.zip
2025-12-12
hash://sha256/f2761ad8e586199d4a50b282009b1a85826d932360ae6f734b19986d680dcf61


https://tb.plazi.org/dumps/plazi.daily.xml.zip
2025-12-12
hash://sha256/cf5eebcc494b7ca70843574adff34a4c973ca3aff9b8498ef6c9be475add946d


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