Plazi Treatments XML Archive hash://sha256/48971c086aaa72674e50e9bc1e96d114831a91e54beab5b10c17fd6c21e556f0 hash://md5/12b23ae20479b66dc8b22f2b7cdd705c

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.