<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hola Antonio</div><div><br></div><div>Can you please join and use the GBIF API mailing list for questions relating to the API?</div><div> <a href="http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users">http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users</a></div><div><br></div><div>We don’t make explicit use of LSIDs on <a href="http://GBIF.org">GBIF.org</a>. I expect what you want to do is lookup the GBIF species key using the species API, and then use that on the occurrence API to get occurrences.</div><div><br></div><div>E.g. Given the plant genus <i>Oenanthe </i> you can look up the taxon (name usage) information using:</div><div> <a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?verbose=false&kingdom=Plantae&name=Oenante">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?verbose=false&kingdom=Plantae&name=Oenante</a></div><div><br></div><div>noting the usageID is 3034893 in the response. You’d presumably either do this on demand or map this to your own backbone periodically. This can then be used to search for occurrences:</div><div> <a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=3034893">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=3034893</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, if you were to publish your own checklist and have GBIF index it, the taxa would be searchable using your own sourceId:</div><div> <a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species?sourceId=%3Cyour%20id%20here%3E">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species?sourceId=<your id here></a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps,</div><div>Tim</div><div> </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 26 Jan 2015, at 09:35, Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF] <<a href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org">eotuama@gbif.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Tim,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Best for you to answer Antonio.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Éamonn<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Antonio García Camacho [<a href="mailto:antonio.garcia.camacho@csic.es" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:antonio.garcia.camacho@csic.es</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>26 January 2015 01:42<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Éamonn Ó Tuama<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>API GBIF: search species using GUID (LSID)<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dear Éamonn,<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">We found some problems using the GBIF API to search for occurrences and datasets. I will explain the use scenario:<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Using the EU BON taxonomic backbone we will find out the LSID of a given species. Therefore, we want to use this LSID, a universal identifier actually, to ask for datasets and occurrences to each data provider. Using GBIF occurrence API we can search filtering by scientific name or even by taxonKey, but it seems that we can not filter using the LSID.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is there a way to filter using species LSIDs or even translating these LSIDs to taxonKeys?<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Antonio.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">-- </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>Antonio García Camacho</strong><br>Estacion Biologica de Doñana (CSIC)<br>Americo Vespucio s/n Isla de la Cartuja<br>41092 Sevilla, España<br>Tel. +34 954232340 / Fax. +34 954621125<br><a href="mailto:antonio.garcia.camacho@csic.es" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">antonio.garcia.camacho@csic.es</a><br><a href="http://www.ebd.csic.es/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">www.ebd.csic.es</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>