Registered users can now add glossary tags (such as male/female, larva, flower, leaf...) for any image in gallery. These tags are marked as unconfirmed and are revised and accepted by gallery administrators. Also it is possible to use special form for associating image with color tags.

Color tags will be used to filter gallery for single color or combination of colors, it is however necessary first to associate as many images with colors as possible.

Not only predominant color but also small spots of different color that could help determination of the species should be associated with the image. It is however not recommended to associate green color with leaves and unripe fruits, white for mushroom stalks, "transparent" for wings of most of the insects, black or brown for legs of beetles where elytra of different color is clearly visible and so on.

In cases where some common name is used only for taxon which is synonymized with different taxon in BioLib it is now possible to link this name to specific synonym, see for example Czech names for Entoloma - závojenka

- taxon profiles, search results, index of taxa, checklists and some other functions now allow filtering records by "kingdom" (not in strict taxonomic sense). Taxa are divided in five such groups - animals (blue), fungi (yellow), plants (green), "bacteria and other" (orange - Bacteria, Chromalveolata, Rhizaria, Excavata atp.) and viruses (gray).

- icons for taxa profiles containing images or texts are now also incorporated in several functions, such as search, index and so on

- administrators can now import citations for check-list data (even more sources for one check-list), see example here: Formica rufa.

- taxon profile now lists check-lists in which taxon is present (only countries, not more detailed check-lists). Check-lists in BioLib are not by any means complete (most of them are actually still quite empty), but if the taxon is present in some of the check-lists, user can now see it immediately on taxon profile. Species with complete listings of countries are specially marked - see Viola alpina

- images linked to a country, where the country is politically under different country (for example Hawaii, Canary Islands etc) are now displayed together with the name of country they are part of (that is USA and Spain respectively...)

- main page redesigned, two years old "news" finally replaced with more recent one.

- users can specify country for uploaded image. Country name will be displayed next to other locality data in site language. Furthermore it is now possible to limit images in gallery to certain country, for example show only photographs from Sri Lanka. Undetermined images can be also limited to selected country.

- changes in function Author gallery. First page of author gallery displays recently added pictures (and link to browse pictures chronologically). Gallery folders are limited to relevant folders - only folders containing images or more than one subfolder are displayed. Photographers can decide which of their images exclude from their author gallery. Recommended author galleries are now listed in function Featured author galleries.

- update of system of Diptera, added over 14 000 European taxa, source de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org]

- default searching method now uses full-text algorithm so it can be used to find species names - try searching for vulgaris. Searching for images is now faster.

- character encoding of whole site changed to UTF-8 (multibyte coding of special characters like kanji, hiragana, characters like å and so on). Hope everything works... Please let me know if you find any problems.

- update of system of Auchenorrhyncha, added over 1500 European taxa, source de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org]

- update of system of Sternorrhyncha, added over 1800 European taxa, source de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org]

- new link "System tools" now accessible from Account function for registered users. It will contain some useful functions for users and for administrators of BioLib.

- function "Lookup taxon IDs" accessible through System tools. It reads list of scientific names from CSV file and attempts to provide their unique identifiers in BioLib. Can be used when some webmaster wants to create links to taxon profiles in BioLib from his database or when someone want to check a list of names for misspellings, invalid names or missing taxa (either in list or in BioLib).

- new function that lists your images that were determined by other person than you. Function accessible through System tools/Special image lists.

- function that lists your images with added comments moved to "Special image lists"

- images associated with taxa with ranks lower than species (subspecies, forms, varieties etc.) are automatically displayed on species page as well (administrators can hide them if needed).

- update of system of true bugs (Heteroptera), added over 1400 European taxa, source de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org]

- redesign of directory listings and image thumbnails. Short text descriptions as well as image thumbnails can be now added to gallery directories, see an example. Image thumbnails can be switched off in Settings.

- images can now be associated with predefined licenses. Minor changes in design of image details. License of added images can be selected in settings as well as selected in image upload form.

- registered users can add intertaxon relationships

- descriptions in multiple languages can now be added to images in gallery. This function is however accessible only to gallery administrators and image owner (before the image is accepted by administrators and locked for further changes)

- users can set preferred language of texts in Settings. If more language versions are present for one record (taxon, glossary term, image and so on), texts in preferred language are displayed primarily. If no such texts exists, English texts are displayed instead (if present). Any other available language version of particular texts can be displayed using language toolbar at the top of the texts (note: this has nothing to do with automatic translation. Some user must first contribute language version of the text before others can view it).

- in Statistics function there's now displayed number of determined images next to total number of images in the gallery (because only determined images are accepted by administrators these numbers are quite close to each other)

- "Underetmined images search" function now allows to switch between current directory/subdirectories search of images in need of determination

- all images marked as non-determined are now displayed apart of other, determined images. These images are located in special directory "Undetermined images" under each directory where there are any such images.

- taxa marked as "incertae sedis" are now displayed in special tree under their parent taxon, ex. Mammalia

- images related with glossary term can be filtered by some taxon, for example fish skulls

- implementation of intertaxonomic relations, see for example Maculinea arion

- changes in the design of many functions and many more features since last post, but we've been too busy to update the english version of History of changes

- lots of design changes, if you have any problems with viewing pages try to refresh first (press F5 key in your internet browser) so that new style loads over the old one.

- design changes in System function

- it is now possible to select language of glossary. Language stays set even if you leave glossary. If you're registered user you can set glossary language so that it automatically changes each time you log in. Searching works in selected language, system language and latin/international terms. It is also possible to search in all languages at time.

- registered user can add texts and names to any dictionary term

- Vernacular names function reworked, it is much faster now

- new map of Czech Republic for faunistic mapping (made by M.Maňas), see example here Rattus rattus

- taxonomy system updates:


Fulgoromorpha, Sternorrhyncha, Auchenorrhyncha: 2970 new taxa

Phthiraptera: 355 new taxa

Thysanoptera: 299 new taxa

Neuroptera: 120 new taxa

Raphidioptera: 24 new taxa

Siphonaptera: 181 new taxa

Ephemeroptera: 58 new taxa

Strepsiptera: 29 new taxa

Zygentoma: 22 new taxa

Blattodea: 47 new taxa

Dermaptera: 22 new taxa

Embioptera: 8 new taxa

Phasmatodea: 13 new taxa

Plecoptera: 169 new taxa

Psocoptera: 147 new taxa

Isoptera: 2 new taxa

- many Plantae families added, we plan to add almost complete Plantae genera of the world in near future

- paging of taxon profiles with more than 200 subtaxa

- minor changes in design all over the system

- function for listing changes in some part of the taxonomy system, for example all taxa/synonymes/images added or changed in selected number of days