Hi @epalatou,
Apologies for the delay, I was out of the office until today this week.
This issue can happen if your IT administrator has not increased the database timeout and maximum allowed data set size at the MariaDB level.
We have instructions on how to solve this here:
Once this change is made, you should be able to proceed with the upload once this adjustment has been made!
By the time we have the taxon trees uploaded on the database, in case we want to enter new species, is it necessary that we provide all relevant information for the taxon tree in the excel file columns (e.g. kingdom, phylum, class, etc), or by just defining the Species name, the record can match automatically to the exact tree node?
Once the taxon trees are uploaded, you will need to include higher-level taxonomy, but not the entire structure. For example, if you want to match existing genera or species, you can simply add the relevant columns:
| Catalog Number | Genus | Species |
|---|---|---|
| 000000001 | ||
| 000000002 | ||
| 000000003 | ||
| 000000004 | ||
| 000000005 | ||
| 000000006 | Boulengerula | |
| 000000007 | Boulengerula | boulengeri |
| 000000008 | Boulengerula | changamwensis |