Eligible records now provide a canonical share page with View public page, Copy share link and Download QR controls from the member view.

Printable Collection Item QR codes use the same share route, while Private – Owner Only records expose neither a canonical share link nor a QR code. Signed-in My Collection and personal-collection working URLs remain member routes and are not intended for sharing.

Where one plate contains several tagged specimens, an individual fossil can be materialised as its own Collection Item while preserving the relationship back to the grouped plate.

Related specimen links can be presented in both directions, so the grouped plate and its individual records remain connected rather than becoming separate pieces of information.

The new QR booklet builder lets you choose which collection items to include, organise them into useful sections such as locality, geological age or fossil type, and create a print-ready guide.

Each specimen QR opens the shareable version of that collection item rather than a private editing page. Standard or binder layouts and a folded booklet format are available, with privacy rules still respected for each record.

LBPS now keeps research permission, scientific verification and public-showcase eligibility as separate signals rather than treating them as one status.

Development and test records are excluded from current trust statistics and showcase decisions, while the live classifications follow the current active collection so changes, deletions and restorations are reflected automatically.

We’ve improved how LBPS keeps members informed about new website features and improvements, making it easier to see what has recently changed and what is being worked on.

Public fossil discovery now uses a clearer and more consistent presentation of species, occurrence status and supporting information across the site.

The work also gives us a stronger foundation for future public discovery features without mixing presentation choices with the underlying scientific records.

Behind the scenes, collection records now have clearer ownership and safer handling of their data, privacy and links to other parts of LBPS. This work also prepares My Collection for future scientific-data, specimen and research features while keeping member records and public information properly separated.

Suggestions, specimen photos, image annotations and fossil examples now sit within a clearer review process, helping the team keep track of items that need attention while preserving the specialist workflows behind each type of contribution.

This gives members a more dependable route for contributing improvements to LBPS and gives reviewers a clearer shared view of outstanding work.

Species information and locality occurrence records are now handled more consistently across the site, helping reduce duplication and making it clearer which records represent confirmed scientific information.

These improvements also give us a safer foundation for future research tools, data exports and identification history without changing scientific records silently behind the scenes.

Studio work can now be kept as named projects with automatic draft persistence and manual saving, including projects linked to Collection Items.

Projects can be reopened on another device, searched and managed from the Saved Projects library. Completed editing files are only released when a member explicitly chooses to free that storage, while the permanent finished plate remains protected.

The CSV tools support both Record a Collecting Trip and Record Matrix Processing. Files are validated first, locality names are matched carefully, and the member sees a preview before explicitly confirming the live import.

The import also guards against duplicate batches and rolls the batch back if a critical write fails, making bulk recording quicker without bypassing the normal data safeguards.