Diversity Workbench provides the possibility to link your
data to an external webservice. The webservice provided by the
Catalogue of Life allows linkage of taxon names. To establish a connection
to this external webservice, click on the 
button. A window will open where you can choose this webservice (see below).
Remark: By selecting "CatalogueOfLife" you can search in
the 2014 annual check list, by selecting "CatalogueOfLife_2" you can search
in a newed, updated edition, which includes higher taxa.
In the field Name in Query conditions enter you
search string and click on the
button to start the query. In the list of the left upper part the results of the
query will be listed. In the right part of the window additional information is
shown as provided by the webservice. If available, the lower part of the window
will show the webpage of the related information.
Higher taxa and for synonyms the accepted name will be shown as e.g. shown above. To inspect one of these entries, click on the linked entry of the ID. To take the link from the webservice into your database choose one of the entries in the list and click OK. The entry will change as shown below.
If you double-click on the link area
a window will open, providing you with the retrieval information of the webservice.
To get the information related to an entry as provided
by the webservice, click on the
button. A window will open
as shown below where the informations of the webservice are listed in the upper
part. If available, additional informations provided on a corresponding website
will be shown in the lower part.
If you want to remove the link to the webservice,
click on the 
button. This will only remove the relation to the webservice, not the cached
name.