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GBIF outage: Monday 1st December
by Tim Robertson 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Dear all, Due to major infrastructure improvements at the University of Copenhagen, our host institution, we expect a lengthy disruption of all GBIF servers and services beginning on Monday, 1 December 2014, at 7:00 GMT. While current expectations are that services will resume at 12:00 GMT, the work could take longer than anticipated. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask that you please prepare accordingly. Many thanks, Tim

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GBIF API deploy, 12th June
by Markus Döring 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Dear GBIF API users, A new API will be deployed later today. Please expect a short downtime in the central European afternoon, we try to keep it minimal. This is a minor updated and all URLs in the new version will remain the same, keeping v0.9. New features included are improved data processing, multimedia support for occurrences and new occurrence search filters based on media type and processing issues. Please also see http://gbif.blogspot.de/2014/05/multimedia-in-gbif.html If you notice problems or need help with the API feel invited to post questions in this list. with thanks, GBIF dev team -- Markus Döring Software Developer Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) mdoering(a)gbif.org http://www.gbif.org

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Checklist bank, query for certain checklist
by "Dröge, Gabriele" 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi GBIF team, on your website (dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/POR/Webservice+API) I've found information that one can only do a name usage match to the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. In theory one could also do it against the Catalogue of Life or other checklists, but this is currently unimplemented. This implementation would be very useful for GGBN (and I guess a lot of other projects too). It would be great to use this standard pipeline to send queries to different checklist instead of querying different web services, despite of the fact that most of the checklists in your repository are not available via web services yet. Can you say something about the priority for this implementation or when you will realize it? Best, Gabi

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Limit 1000 for /species endpoints?
by Scott Chamberlain 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Hello, Is the max value 1000 for the limit parameter for /species endpoints? If so, I don't think this is documented anywhere. Cheers, Scott

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Help with GBIF API
by Daniele Palazzi 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Hello, I'm development a tool for data quality and I'm using the GBIF API to validate scientific names. I want to know if you have a documentation about the JSON response. I have any questions: 1- What the possibles values to matchType attribute? 2- When the result is exact, always return a single dataset? And when the result isn't exact, the attribute "alternatives" return the datasets that better matche with the search term? 3- What kind of URL I should use when the name query has space and special caracteres, for example, ().,& ? Thank you, -- [image: SiBBr_logo_assinatura_email] *Daniele Palazzi Krempser* *Especialista em Banco de Dados* Laboratório Nacional da Computação Científica +55 24 2233-6183 +55 24 98822-4495 Skype: danicpalazzi dpalazzi(a)lncc.br www.sibbr.gov.br

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Mapping API
by Gallien 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi guys, I'm currently playing with the GBIF API. Using the mapping Api, I can apply 'Type' parameter which can be either a TAXON, DATASET, COUNTRY or PUBLISHER. However, it seems not possible to add two parameters together , for instance If I want to get a map of a taxon (eg: "Canis Lupus") which belongs to one particular dataset. I am wrong ? If not, does that feature will be brought with api v2 ? Thanks, Gallien -- *Gallien LABEYRIE* *IT Developer* *GBIF France* - *Global Biodiversity Information Facility* Adresse: MNHN Géologie CP48 43, Rue Buffon 75005 Paris - FRANCE *Tél :* +33 (0)1 40 79 80 65 http://www.gbif.fr

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Why dataset metrics on type CHECKLIST only?
by Scott Chamberlain 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hello, On the dataset metrics page http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry#datasetMetrics you describe that The dataset metrics API provides metrics for datasets of type CHECKLIST only. Curious why this is? Cheers, Scott

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Remove/filter by data from botanical gardens?
by Scott Chamberlain 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hello, Someone brought up recently whether or not they could exclude observations from botanical gardens in GBIF occurrence searches. I think they meant just occurrences from within actual gardens, not observations from more natural areas in a database provided by a botanical garden. Is something like this already flagged as an issue in the occurrence issue enum? I didn't see it myself. I guess one could find the data providers that are botanical gardens and exclude those if they are in the search results. Thanks for any guidance. Cheers, Scott Chamberlain

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Why is the downloads interface different than other occurrence endpoints?
by Scott Chamberlain 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Hi! I'm curious why the occurrence/download/ endpoint has a different interface than the other occurrence endpoints (occurrence/search). I ask because I work on the R client rgbif, and it would be nice to provide the same exact interface to users whether they are getting JSON data or spinning up a download. However, the query interfaces are quite different. This isn't a big deal, as I can make both occurrence/download and occurrence/search endpoints as similar as possible for users despite them being different internally. Thanks! Scott Chamberlain

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Search for occurrence by identifier
by Roderic D. M. Page 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

Am I correct in thinking that it's not currently possible to search for an occurrence by identifier or the occurrenceID fields? For example, if I want to search the recently added Geographically tagged INSDC sequences dataset http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ad43e954-dd79-4986-ae34-9ccdbd8bf568 using the accession number I would need to search on either of these fields. Regards Rod Sent from Acompli

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