November 2014 - API-users - lists.gbif.org

GBIF outage: Monday 1st December
by Tim Robertson 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Dear all, Due to major infrastructure improvements at the University of Copenhagen, our host institution, we expect a lengthy disruption of all GBIF servers and services beginning on Monday, 1 December 2014, at 7:00 GMT. While current expectations are that services will resume at 12:00 GMT, the work could take longer than anticipated. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask that you please prepare accordingly. Many thanks, Tim

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GBIF API deploy, 12th June
by Markus Döring 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Dear GBIF API users, A new API will be deployed later today. Please expect a short downtime in the central European afternoon, we try to keep it minimal. This is a minor updated and all URLs in the new version will remain the same, keeping v0.9. New features included are improved data processing, multimedia support for occurrences and new occurrence search filters based on media type and processing issues. Please also see http://gbif.blogspot.de/2014/05/multimedia-in-gbif.html If you notice problems or need help with the API feel invited to post questions in this list. with thanks, GBIF dev team -- Markus Döring Software Developer Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) mdoering(a)gbif.org http://www.gbif.org

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Checklist bank, query for certain checklist
by "Dröge, Gabriele" 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi GBIF team, on your website (dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/POR/Webservice+API) I've found information that one can only do a name usage match to the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. In theory one could also do it against the Catalogue of Life or other checklists, but this is currently unimplemented. This implementation would be very useful for GGBN (and I guess a lot of other projects too). It would be great to use this standard pipeline to send queries to different checklist instead of querying different web services, despite of the fact that most of the checklists in your repository are not available via web services yet. Can you say something about the priority for this implementation or when you will realize it? Best, Gabi

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