Matt Blissett

Hi, The SSL certificates for gbif.org are valid, and it shouldn't be necessary to disable certificate checking — see https://api.gbif.org/, for example. You probably have an old version of Curl...

Clicking the URL bar and pressing "Enter" then goes to the correct place, see #291. Who maintains this site? I don't know how it's built, and it hasn't been changed...

Ah, sorry, I was looking at the gh-pages branch, which is obsolete. The master branch is used. I see the problem with Firefox and Chrome, on Linux and MacOS.

It looks like you were aware: https://github.com/tdwg/tdwg-theme-jekyll/issues/1 I think the JavaScript is only highlighting the current section in the list on the right, and adding a line before LivingSpecimen. If...

Assuming `C` is intended to be degrees Celcius, `°C` is the unit. (`C` means coulombs, the SI unit of electric charge.) Some other common units in GBIF data: `%`, `percent`,...

The degree Celsius is an SI derived unit, these are included in my understanding of "SI units". Minutes, hours, days, litres, hectares and tonnes are also acceptable. Conversions between any...

Other non-ASCII characters like é, ß, š etc are necessary in author names, so I think it's best to update the workflow UI, search engines etc to cope, rather than...

Quentin's proposal uses "should" rather than "must". We'll continue to do what we can with the data we receive, but it is always easier when the input is of high...

Fully supporting ISO8601 date ranges would be a significant change to our API. We're working towards that. There's some older discussion on https://github.com/gbif/gbif-api/issues/4 and https://github.com/gbif/gbif-api/issues/2, but the final implementation hasn't...

The original issue: > The DwC text xml schema references the W3C xml.xsd from a GBIF server. The rs.gbif.org server is about a metre from the rs.gbif.org server, and significantly...