News
Latest news and Circulars
- Nov 25, 2022: [PDF]
- Sabadell - compiling a list of relevant associated databases.
- Sep 28, 2022: [PDF]
- NOW anniversary meeting in Barcelona (Sabadell) is approaching.
- Feb 18, 2022: [PDF]
- NOW anniversary meeting will be on November 16-18, 2022 in Barcelona
- Dec 06, 2021: [PDF]
- Happy 25th birthday NOW!
- Oct 12, 2021: [PDF]
- Sad news arrived in September.
- May 03, 2021: [PDF]
- NOW happily resides at the Finnish Museum of Natural History. New dental traits of carnivores.
- February 10, 2021: [PDF]
- NOW Honorary Memberships anniversary ceremony on March 1st
- January 15, 2021: [PDF]
- NOW anniversary meeting is postponed to some time in 2022
- October 25, 2020: [PDF]
- NOW DOI is getting closer, Curation update
- June 8, 2020: [PDF]
- Data curators, Emeritus Board, Honorary Members
- February 11, 2020: [PDF]
- NOW is now accessible via https://nowdatabase.org/.
- The NOW book is approved at Springer
- Expansion of the NOW Advisory Board
- Active revisions of small mammals are taking place
- The NOW www-pages have been updated to manage HTML5 semantic elements like <header>, <footer>, <article>, and <section>.
- October 14, 2019: Indrė Žliobaitė replaces Mikael Fortelius as the General Coordinator of NOW. A new NOW body, the Emeritus Board has been set up. [PDF]
- December 12, 2013: Lars van den Hoek Ostende as the Associate Coordinator. Steering Group for NOW has been set up. [PDF]
- June 8, 2010: Initiating a concerted effort to come to grips with NOW synonyms. [PDF]
- April 29, 2010: New Board listing on the NOW homepage. [PDF]
- October 23, 2009: North American Advisory Board for NOW has been set up. New PHP-based interface launched. Sections for Australia as well as for South America. [PDF]
- February 15, 2009: Data from the Tertiary Mammals of North America monographs into NOW. New suggestion for NOW - "New and Old Worlds". [PDF]
- December 19, 2006: It’s ten years since the official launch of the NOW database as a public resource. [PDF]
- June 3, 2002: NOW is available in the Biodiversity U.K. home page. NOW data are being used in analyses that are beginning to catch the attention of the evolutionary biology community. [PDF]
- May 14, 1998: Next year it will probably be possible to access a recent version of the public set of NOW data with a common web browser (such as Netscape). [PDF]
- October 15, 1997: Creation of an Advisory Board for NOW. A few words about the "data policy". [PDF]
- September 15, 1995: The Evolutionary History of Western Eurasia: A Synthesis of Regional Faunas, Their Geochronology and Paleoenvironments, 15-5 m. y. a. -- The Schloss Reisensburg ´92 Database. [PDF]
New features & fixes to the NOW database
- Time Unit names made editable
- Time Unit calculations updated
- DOI identifier created for the database
- Data download as CSV implemented
- Basin added to the user interface
- Flash is removed from the user interface
- Data: Several Time Units are updated
- Data: 20+ Localities are merged
- Data: 100+ Species names are updated or merged
- Time Units are visible for all users
- The references are visible for the Time Units
- Data: The Spanish Time Units are updated
- Data: The GCSS times are updated
- Data: The Chinese regional time units are updated
- The coordinators list has been updated
- Data: The North American localities by Janis are changed as "general localities"
- Data: Body mass data has been added to 1258 species
- Data: South American data added from Croft, D.A., 2016. Horned armadillos and rafting monkeys: the fascinating fossil mammals of South America.
- Added new taxonomical fields: Subclass or Superorder, Suborder or Superfamily
- Fix: coordinate services in the data entry
- Data: New MN units (Hilgen, 2012) are added to the time units
- Data: 'Findout' taxa updated as 'indet.'
- Added an error reporting button (contact) for Locality, Species and Reference
- Added a FAQ page
- Added “unworn” to mesowear categories
- Added a list of metadata of the website, including the major contributors of the last few months
- Added into the download file species that have no public locality (interesting because of traits)
- Updated the NOW Advisoy Board listing
- Fix: Trim all taxa before saving them in the database.
