December 2015 - API-users - lists.gbif.org

Misinterpreted names
by Nozomi James Ytow 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Hi, Though it is not API issue per se, I found misinterpreted names such as http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/114606608 where species epithet is interpreted as authority of the name. I suspect that the crawler code assumes second or later word starting with a capital letter as authority. I tried verbatim also but it is not successful. Regerds, James

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API back up date?
by Scott Chamberlain 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Hi, I realize it's the holidays, so API down time seems fine, but is there a date that the API is planned to be back up? Thanks, Scott

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Best practice to read details info using the API
by Martin Wendt 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hello all, I like to display an overview page for a distinct species like this: http://www.gbif.org/species/4827561 <http://www.gbif.org/species/4827561> Is there a common request that collects these information with one roundtrip, or do I have to issue the specialized calls separately http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/4827561/ http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/4827561/speciesProfiles http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/4827561/synonyms … A similar question arises, if i want to construct a breadcrumb for a given key, so I need the parent list *and* the target item. Is there a shortcut or are these two calls required (like i do now): http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/4827561/parents http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/4827561/ I just want to make sure that I don’t generate more requests than necessary. So if there are any policies like max. request rate, or a recommended additional request header to identify the user agent, please let me know. Thanks Martin

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How to get the 'right' kingdom nodes
by Martin Wendt 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

I try to implement a lazy-loading taxonomy tree (as a demo for a open source javascript tree plugin). See here for an example: http://rawgit.com/mar10/fancytree/master/demo/taxonomy-browser/index.html#k… What JSON API should use to get the top level nodes (i.e. Kingdoms)? Currently I call http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?rank=kingdom <http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?rank=kingdom> but this returns much more than the ~7 entries I expect (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, …) I seem to get reasonable results, if I only display nodes with key == nubKey. But the search results retrieved by `species/search?q=homo sapiens` returns multiple hits, and some of them have keys different from nubKey. Those matches seem to be descendants of an `Animals` kingdom that also has nubKey != key. I guess my mental model of the data structure is too naïve: - why are there different ‚Animals‘ kingdoms with different keys but identical nubKey? - does it make sense at all to display a tree (with only one ‚animals‘ node)? - when I restrict the search results to entries that have a kingdom with key == nubKey, what will the user miss? Thanks Martin Wendt

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GBIF down
by Scott Chamberlain 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

GBIF assets are all down for me. Is it just me? Best, Scott

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