Thanks Jan. I'll keep exploring and I'll be in touch, if I need.
Best,
Eduardo
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Jan Legind [GBIF] jlegind@gbif.org wrote:
Dear Eduardo,
Thanks for getting in touch with us about these issues.
The first request http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisO... https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e returns the number of records located in Brazil for the facets in the request.
The second query http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=BR&taxonKey=6&... https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9d992e7b6733894b7f83de11d178c1437080224b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcounts%2Fdatasets%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=8b9c03790290e0ba uses the Occurrence Inventories web service http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#inventories which does not support the basis-of-record facet in the /datasets request. I understand that it would be better if the API response yielded an error message in this instance.
Concerning the other issues – you are indeed right that the counts do not make sense in the context of taxon key 6 which is Plantae. Actually the API does not handle the taxonKey search at all, contrary to what the documentation states:
/occurrence/counts/datasets
GET
Counts http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=DE
Lists occurrence counts for datasets that cover a given taxon *or* country.
country http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#p_country, taxonKey http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#p_taxonKey
As you can see here, http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?taxonKey=6 , this request doesn’t return anything.
The GBIF developers will handle this issue in due time.
You can follow the issue in our bug tracking service here: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2828
With best regards,
Jan K. Legind
Data manager, GBIF Secretariat
*From:* API-users [mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org] *On Behalf Of *Eduardo Dalcin *Sent:* 2. september 2015 20:06 *To:* api-users@lists.gbif.org; dev@gbif.org *Cc:* João Monnerat Lanna; Natália Queiroz; Diogo Silva; Laura; Ricardo Avancini *Subject:* [API-users] Some questions from a begginer
Hi folks,
This is my first message to the list. So, please, be nice :)
I'm working here at Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, together with the guys at the National Center for Flora Conservation. We are doing the risk assessment of the Brazilian flora to the government. We assess, so far, the risk of ca. 6.000 species https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/453c7d453a2da4e332a97aeca082eb5547d8191b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcncflora.jbrj.gov.br%2Farquivos%2Farquivos%2Fpdfs%2FLivroVermelho.pdf&signature=500078d211c9dfde, but we still have to assess ca. 35.000. Access occurrence records for Brazil is crucial, and every occurrence is important.
That means that we have to put together occurrence data from different sources and, after the first batch of the risk assessment, we realize that we need to build up our aggregator. We are planning to do this with the Lontra-harvester, with the help of the guys at Brazilian GBIF Node.
So, the one of the firsts steps was to list the available resources to understand the dimension of the task and, that brings me to my questions.
First:
The request:
http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisO... https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e
returns 4.982.689 records
And the request:
http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=BR&taxonKey=6&... https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9d992e7b6733894b7f83de11d178c1437080224b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcounts%2Fdatasets%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=8b9c03790290e0ba
returns (here https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/f15b92c6e49e193b58c96df93026b672d630a4fd?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&signature=c9883058799925fd) 7.406.310 records
Comments?
Second:
The request:
http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisO... https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e
return things like this:
"197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862":27629
But the consult of the same dataset:
http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?TAXON_KEY=6&DATASET_KEY=197908d0-5... https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/6b3dbf4bfc7f45d67d05057979f1e72e2617ca68?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gbif.org%2Foccurrence%2Fsearch%3FTAXON_KEY%3D6%26DATASET_KEY%3D197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862&signature=b7f33a6c62020571
Returns "null" (of course, is a FishBase!)
I have plenty of examples like this, on yellow here (not finished!):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYy... https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/21008349e3704f943677730af8f5afdc6cd3cc7b?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&signature=b9533d9cc7784c04
Comments?
I think those two questions is a good start. Please, let me know if I'm doing something wrong.
Cheers,
Eduardo
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e-mail: edalcin@jbrj.gov.br
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