Hi Chris, the latest GBIF backbone is always available as a Darwin Core archive. This is mostly a collection of tab delimited text files with the accepted and synonym names at its core. You can find the latest and previous, archived versions here: http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/
Best, Markus
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On 14 Nov 2016, at 16:42, Köhler Christian <C.Koehler@zfmk.demailto:C.Koehler@zfmk.de> wrote:
Hi,
we are developing an application to curate taxonomic and morphological data for scientists. At the moment we are evaluating different taxonomic backbones to be used within our application. The GIBF taxonomic backbone seems to be an good choice in regards to quality, number of entries and acceptance.
Due to the nature of our application, a web service to browse the taxonomy will not fulfil our requirements. A local copy of the GIBF data as SQL would be an ideal solution. I looked for this data publicly available to no avail. "Harvesting" the GBIF rest api seems not a good option. Are there plans to provide current taxonomic backbone data in the future? Maybe the data is already available, but I failed to find it yet.
Regards Chris
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