[Ala-portal] Query to get data for a country not published by that country

Rui Figueira ruifigueira at isa.ulisboa.pt
Wed Feb 24 15:07:27 CET 2016


Dear Frederico,

Many thanks for this clarification.

If that sort of query could be implemented, it would greatly facilitate 
the data management of our national data portal in the future.

Regards,

Rui

On 02/24/2016 12:29 PM, Federico Mendez wrote:
> Dear Rui, I¹m afraid that by now the only way of getting those records is
> how you described: downloading all the portuguese records and then remove
> records coming from portuguese institutions. In the next months we¹ll be
> analysing the feasibility of implementing ¹negated¹ expression in out API
> to be able to compose queries like: country=PT&publishingCountry=NOT PT.
>
> Regards, Federico Mendez.
>
>
>
> On 23/02/16 15:04, "Mélianie Raymond" <mraymond at gbif.org> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rui Figueira [mailto:ruifigueira at isa.ulisboa.pt]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:19 AM
>> To: Mélianie Raymond; ala-portal at lists.gbif.org; Federico Mendez
>> Subject: Re: [Ala-portal] Query to get data for a country not published
>> by that country
>>
>> Hi Méliane,
>>
>> Yes, that's it:
>>
>>> identify all occurrences in Portugal published by institutions NOT in
>>> Portugal.
>> If you could create that custom query, it would greatly facilitate the
>> management of the national data portal in the future.
>>
>> But for the time being, I understand that the only option is to download
>> all occurrences for Portugal, and afterwards filter it to remove records
>> published by Portuguese, right?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rui
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> Rui Figueira
>> Coordenador do Nó Português do GBIF
>> ruifigueira at isa.ulisboa.pt
>> Instituto Superior de Agronomia
>> Herbário
>> Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal Tel. +351 213653421 | Fax.
>> +351 213653195 http://www.gbif.pt http://www.isa.ulisboa.pt
>>
>> On 02/23/2016 09:05 AM, Mélianie Raymond wrote:
>>> Dear Rui,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your message. I have discussed this with Federico and we
>>> would just like to be sure we have understood the request correctly.
>>>
>>> Here is an example of a dataset published by the Netherlands about
>>> occurrences in Portugal: doi:10.15468/eswvar
>>> (http://www.gbif.org/dataset/9cbcf2b3-448f-48ce-9510-39e25c6234a8).
>>>
>>> However, the datasets published by institutions NOT in Portugal
>>> typically tend to be on broader areas, only including some occurrences
>>> that fall in Portugal. You can use the API to identify all occurrences
>>> in Portugal: http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?country=PT.
>>>
>>> We could make a custom query to identify all occurrences in Portugal
>>> published by institutions NOT in Portugal if this is what you need?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Melianie
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>> Dr. Mélianie Raymond
>>> Senior Programme Officer for Node Development GBIF Secretariat
>>> Universitetsparken 15
>>> DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
>>> Tel.: +45 35 32 14 96/ Fax: +45 35 32 14 80
>>> E-mail: mraymond at gbif.org
>>> Website: www.gbif.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ala-portal [mailto:ala-portal-bounces at lists.gbif.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Rui Figueira
>>> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:57 PM
>>> To: ala-portal at lists.gbif.org
>>> Subject: [Ala-portal] Query to get data for a country not published by
>>> that country
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We would like to add to our test implementation of ALA one resource
>>> with the data for Portugal which IS NOT published by portuguese
>>> institutions.
>>> Is it possible to define a query in the GBIF data portal to achieve
>>> this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rui Figueira
>>>
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