Hi Craig

I am currently working on it and the Freshwater Alga checklist by David John. I'd like to get the Lepidoptera imported as a priority but I was relying on a colleague to reformat the data for us but he has been diverted onto other NHM projects so I have been left to do the work myself so it is taking a bit longer than I'd like.

Last week David gave me some corrections and new species, which have gone in to the dataset so I am now in the phase of doing a gap/fit analysis on the data before importing it. By doing the gap/fit at the start you save yourself time later when you try to reconcile everything.

There might be a bit of additional to-ing and fro-ing though because some other people have said they would like to comment on it themselves, which will of course involve going back to David.

I'm hoping that it will get into the system in the next 2 weeks but a spreadsheet of the data has gone onto the NHM Data Portal so that lepidopterists can update their own databases:

http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/checklist … isles-data

Hope that helps :)

Best wishes,
Chris R.