EDIT

ref #6799: start the progress monitor

ref #6799: use the progress monitor of the configurator

ref #6627: facts containing only media exported to an media table

fix bug in sortindex updater

ref #6828:adapt cache updater to work for specimenOrObservationBase

ref #6887 and ref #5173 improve area handling for CoL distribution import

ref #6887 handle non LSID identifiers in CoL import

ref #6887 handle languages in DwCA CoL import

ref #6887 add description.txt to CoL import

• add DISTRIBUTION_GENERAL to Feature static methods
• import fields with default values

cleanup