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,