Hi. Thanks for the tips!  I will see if some combination of these can be useful in removing botanical garden occurrences. 

Scott

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Markus Döring <mdoering@gbif.org> wrote:
… plus LivingSpecimen is used a lot for culture collections (e.g. fungi, algae) and all germplasm / seed records with mostly correct wild location data.
You would filter out a few correct native occurrences by using basis of record.

And establishmentMeans is not yet part of our API search filters - so you would have to filter records yourself locally.

Markus


On 07 Oct 2014, at 16:47, Tim Robertson <trobertson@gbif.org> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> There is actually no easy way of doing this.  Filtering out BasisOfRecord=LivingSpecimen would get you some of the way there, and looking into the establishmentMeans a step further, but the some of the data just don’t have fields to filter them out.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
>
> On 07 Oct 2014, at 03:00, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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