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Topic: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

Upgrade 00000056  is now available from http://www.recorder6.info/page47.html   This update must be  be run from within Recorder 6 and requires version 6.29 or above.  A licence key to access these updates see https://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=7472.

You should  backup your R6 DB before the update just in case of any major issues.

If you have run the new upgrade before and know how it works then you can go directly to the files at  http://www.recorder6.info/page50.html

It brings Recorder 6 into line with the UKSI at 6 June 2025. It includes a recent major update from the BSBI.

Please run report DIct 2 and check that the figures are in line with those accesed by clicking on  additional information.  Please report here any differences.

I suggest that you do not use the option at the end of the process to update the four Indexes but do this as a separate process on each index. See R6 Tools/Database  Tools.

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Re: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

Hi Mike,

Thanks very much.  As licences for 2025-26 cannot currently be purchased (https://nbn.org.uk/tools-and-resources/recorder6/), would we be able to use the 2024-25 licence key?

Best wishes,
Lindsay

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3 Reply by MikeWeideli

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Re: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

As the new licence renewal system is not yet in place  the key for both this and the previous year will work for the moment.

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Re: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

Thanks very much for the confirmation Mike.

Lindsay

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Re: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

I couldn't get the link to the dictionary download to work on recorder6.info so copied the url (https://www.recorder6.info/00000056.zip) into the adress bar and that worked fine. Just thought I'd post in case anyone else has the same issue (maybe it's just my browser?).

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Re: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

Hi Mike

"It brings Recorder 6 into line with the UKSI at 6 June 2025. It includes a recent major update from the BSBI."

As a matter of interest, is this the long awaited move to incorporate Stace 4 into the UKSI/Recorder?

I've mentioned it before and I have no idea how it could be done (and who would do it) but it would be really helpful in the longer term if we could could get a brief headline summary of the changes each update includes? Something along the lines of what MapMate users used to get e.g. "Updates Coleoptera to match revised UK Checklist published in The Colepterist June 2026" etc"

Alistair Kirk
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7 Reply by Tom Humphrey (edited by Tom Humphrey 23-06-2025 20:43:07)

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Re: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

Hi Alistair,

Yes, this update should, comprehensively, bring the UKSI into alignment with Stace 4 (apart from a very few exceptions where BSBI has, intentionally, opted to follow a different taxonomy). Some native microspecies recognized by Sell & Murrell's Flora and all of the widespread or long-established aliens mapped for BSBI's 2020 Plant Atlas are also now included. Many other minor changes to the formatting of taxon names and authorities have been applied, to more closely align with the formatting used by IPNI.

The intention from now on will be to keep the UKSI and BSBI's vascular plant lists broadly synchronized, so that future large scale one-off updates of this type can be avoided.

There is still a need to review the plant vernacular names in the UKSI (and in BSBI's database) as there are some problematic anomalies, but that should be a less complex task, best tackled once the dust has settled.

Best wishes,

Tom

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8 Reply by Alistair Kirk (edited by Alistair Kirk 24-06-2025 07:21:38)

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Re: Dictionary Upgrade - 00000056

Thanks Tom

That is really helpful (and really good to hear). Two quick questions, are the exceptions described above documented anywhere? Also, and I appreciate that this isn't necessarily the forum to ask this question, a similar set of changes were promised for the MapMate dictionary. The original date has for this to be rolled out has long since passed with only limited ongoing support for existing MapMate users. Do you have any idea if Stace 4 will make it to MapMate in any form?

Thanks

Alistair

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