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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Jan Legind [GBIF] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlegind@gbif.org" target="_blank">jlegind@gbif.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear Eduardo,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks for getting in touch with us about these issues.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The first request </span><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e" target="_blank">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN</a> r<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">eturns the number of records located in Brazil for the facets in the request. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The second query </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9d992e7b6733894b7f83de11d178c1437080224b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcounts%2Fdatasets%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=8b9c03790290e0ba" target="_blank">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN</a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> uses the Occurrence Inventories web service <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#inventories" target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#inventories</a> which does not support the basis-of-record facet in the /datasets request. I understand that it would be better if the API response yielded an error message in this instance.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Concerning the other issues – you are indeed right that the counts do not make sense in the context of taxon key 6 which is Plantae. Actually the API does not handle the taxonKey search at all, contrary to what the documentation states: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt"><tbody><tr><td width="185" style="width:139.1pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal">/occurrence/counts/datasets<u></u><u></u></p></td><td width="36" style="width:26.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal">GET<u></u><u></u></p></td><td width="93" style="width:69.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=DE" target="_blank">Counts</a><u></u><u></u></p></td><td width="452" style="width:338.7pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Lists occurrence counts for datasets that cover a given taxon <b>or</b> country.<u></u><u></u></p></td><td width="148" style="width:111.15pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#p_country" target="_blank">country</a>, <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#p_taxonKey" target="_blank">taxonKey</a><u></u><u></u></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">As you can see here, <a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?taxonKey=6" target="_blank">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?taxonKey=6</a> , this request doesn’t return anything.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The GBIF developers will handle this issue in due time.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can follow the issue in our bug tracking service here: <a href="http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2828" target="_blank">http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2828</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">With best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Jan K. Legind<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Data manager, GBIF Secretariat<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> API-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org" target="_blank">api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eduardo Dalcin<br><b>Sent:</b> 2. september 2015 20:06<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:api-users@lists.gbif.org" target="_blank">api-users@lists.gbif.org</a>; <a href="mailto:dev@gbif.org" target="_blank">dev@gbif.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> João Monnerat Lanna; Natália Queiroz; Diogo Silva; Laura; Ricardo Avancini<br><b>Subject:</b> [API-users] Some questions from a begginer<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi folks,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">This is my first message to the list. So, please, be nice :)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I'm working here at Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, together with the guys at the National Center for Flora Conservation. We are doing the risk assessment of the Brazilian flora to the government. We assess, so far, <a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/453c7d453a2da4e332a97aeca082eb5547d8191b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcncflora.jbrj.gov.br%2Farquivos%2Farquivos%2Fpdfs%2FLivroVermelho.pdf&signature=500078d211c9dfde" target="_blank">the risk of ca. 6.000 species</a>, but we still have to assess ca. 35.000. Access occurrence records for Brazil is crucial, and every occurrence is important.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">That means that we have to put together occurrence data from different sources and, after the first batch of the risk assessment, we realize that we need to build up our aggregator. We are planning to do this with the Lontra-harvester, with the help of the guys at Brazilian GBIF Node.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">So, the one of the firsts steps was to list the available resources to understand the dimension of the task and, that brings me to my questions.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">First:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal">The request:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e" target="_blank">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN</a><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">returns <span style="color:black">4.982.689 records</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">And the request:</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9d992e7b6733894b7f83de11d178c1437080224b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcounts%2Fdatasets%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=8b9c03790290e0ba" target="_blank">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">returns (<a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/f15b92c6e49e193b58c96df93026b672d630a4fd?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&signature=c9883058799925fd" target="_blank">here</a>) </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">7.406.310 records</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Comments?</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Second:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal">The request:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e" target="_blank">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN</a><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">return things like this:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:black">"197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862":27629<u></u><u></u></span></pre></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">But the consult of the same dataset:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/6b3dbf4bfc7f45d67d05057979f1e72e2617ca68?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gbif.org%2Foccurrence%2Fsearch%3FTAXON_KEY%3D6%26DATASET_KEY%3D197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862&signature=b7f33a6c62020571" target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?TAXON_KEY=6&DATASET_KEY=197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862</a><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Returns "null" (of course, is a FishBase!)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have plenty of examples like this, on yellow here (not finished!):<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/21008349e3704f943677730af8f5afdc6cd3cc7b?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&signature=b9533d9cc7784c04" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc/edit?usp=sharing</a><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Comments?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I think those two questions is a good start. Please, let me know if I'm doing something wrong.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Eduardo<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">--------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/0013f9d54db6dace53d2df17834b697a7abd50cc?url=http%3A%2F%2Feduardo.dalc.in&signature=d1933ed6341a6234" target="_blank">Eduardo Dalcin</a></span></b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro - JBRJ</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:edalcin@jbrj.gov.br" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">edalcin@jbrj.gov.br</span></a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Trabalho / Work: <a href="tel:%2B55%2021%203204%202116" target="_blank">+55 21 3204 2116</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">--------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red">e-mail alternativo / </span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444"> </span><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red">alternate email</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red">: <a href="mailto:edalcin@jbrj.org" target="_blank">edalcin@jbrj.org</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">--------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Agendar reunião / </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Schedule a meeting: <a href="https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/0307534e3500b69d419aa6594a8e7baed96be03e?url=http%3A%2F%2Fagendar.dalc.in&signature=8525294e2422d17d" target="_blank">http://agendar.dalc.in</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7"><img border="0" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7"><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>