Dear all,

From 1999 onwards I have created and maintained a insect family website about Syrphidae ( http://www.syrphidae.com )

Main goal is a centralised meeting point for Syrpidologists around the world. My plan is to use the gbif backbone in the future but have no idea where to start.

Basically I used national checklists to update the data in the past but never reached the whole world (Europe and Africa where partly done). What is the best option for me? I know in the past there was the gibf-npt which was very suitable for my case but was discontinued.

Are there examples I can reuse for my purpose? Would it be best to use only api calls all over my website ot receive specie data and occurences?

kind regards,