August 2023 - COL-Users - lists.gbif.org

API examples
by Mauro Cavalcanti 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

Dear ALL, Are there any simple examples of the usage of the new Checklist API (as there was for the old API)? Thanks in advance! Best regards, -- Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti E-mail: maurobio(a)gmail.com Web: http://sites.google.com/site/maurobio

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ChecklistBank in read only mode
by Markus Döring 21 Aug '23

21 Aug '23

Dear users, we are upgrading the ChecklistBank database this week and unfortunately have to turn the system into a read only mode for some time. We expect work to be finished by the end of the week. Until then you can use CLB as normal, but all changes to data including newly registered datasets, users, downloads or editorial work will not persist and be discarded. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we hope for a more performant and stable system afterwards. Best wishes, Markus Döring

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Tombstone pages for deleted IDs
by Markus Döring 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

Dear COL users, the COL portal now has tombstone pages for once existing, but now deleted COL identifiers. Here is an example: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/64SCW This shows the basic information as it once existed as well as links to the first and last appearance in ChecklistBank. The API still returns a 404 for these ids, but does include a message and an archived usage instance that can be processed: https://api.checklistbank.org/dataset/3LR/taxon/64SCW Btw this is also true for synonyms being looked up as accepted names / taxa: https://api.catalogueoflife.org/dataset/3LR/taxon/7Q8L8 Best wishes, Markus

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CLB API related data
by MANCINI Raffael 17 Aug '23

17 Aug '23

Dear list, I'm developing a national "datawarehouse"/repository for natural history observation/occurrence data integrating several sources including GBIF and iNaturalist. For this purpose I'm generating lists of names and taxa related to the different ingested observation sources. In order to offer unified taxon search and filter functionality, I need equivalence mappings between ID-namespaces of different checklists (GBIF, CoL, internal, ornitho.lu, etc). I noticed that the CLB API offers the call `/dataset/{key}/nameusage/{id}/related` which for key=3LR and datasetKey=139831 [iNat] returns a correspondence. Where does the data for this mapping come from? Examining both the CoL and iNat checklists NameRelation.tsv (from the CoLDP downloads) didn't give a match. Is this data imported into CLB though a different checklist or is it supplemented though some more hidden datasource? The ID-namespace translation does not seem to be universally implemented and seems somehow tied to the dataset (translation from iNat to CoL didn't seem to work), is this correct? Do you plan on supporting my use-case more explicitly in the future? I would prefer not to use the CLB API and instead import the relevant checklists into our postgresql database in order to allow for an efficient and flexible operation. Thanks for the great work that went into CLB and related projects! Best regards, -- Raffael Mancini IT administrator and developer Service d'information digital sur le patrimoine naturel (SIDPNAT) Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg T: +352 247 66667 - https://mnhn.lu

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