[API-users] Remove/filter by data from botanical gardens?

[Scott Chamberlain]

Tim,

Thanks, I should have thought of that!

Cheers, Scott

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote:

> Hi Scott
>
> Occurrence record fields are elastic - we support the full DwC, but can
> only render from GBIF.org what is shared by the data publisher.
>
> So that field will only appear on records where it is present - here is an
> example of a single record:
>   http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/675943831
>
> That record above is the interpreted view of the verbatim content we
> observed from the source:
>   http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/675943831/verbatim
>
> It is also returned in a search (same dataset as record above):
>
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?datasetKey=b6015b60-6f96-43a9-88e5-2f41854e8f07
>
> I hope this helps,
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> On 07 Oct 2014, at 20:48, Scott Chamberlain <scott at ropensci.org> wrote:
>
> Hmmm...I don't see establishmentMeans anywhere in the returned data from
> the /occurrence . I do see documentation on it, endpoint
> https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence#establishmentMeans,
> but is it included in data output anywhere? Maybe called something else?
>
> S
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Scott Chamberlain <scott at ropensci.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Alex,
>>
>> Thanks, that's a good idea. I was thinking that there are a finite number
>> of botanical gardens, so I could simply collect coordinates for each of
>> them, and a reasonable bounding box around each one perhaps.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Alex Thompson <godfoder at acis.ufl.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Also not something that can be done via the API, but botanical gardens
>>> will also tend to be fairly large locality outliers (large numbers of
>>> extremely tightly clustered points from relatively diverse taxa). Often,
>>> I've found, many gardens are all geo-referenced to a single reference
>>> locality, so you don't even need to do a bounding box filter, you can
>>> just filter out specific points.
>>>
>>> - Alex
>>>
>>> On 10/07/2014 10:47 AM, Tim Robertson wrote:
>>> > Hi Scott,
>>> >
>>> > There is actually no easy way of doing this.  Filtering out
>>> BasisOfRecord=LivingSpecimen would get you some of the way there, and
>>> looking into the establishmentMeans a step further, but the some of the
>>> data just don’t have fields to filter them out.
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Tim
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 07 Oct 2014, at 03:00, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hello,
>>> >>
>>> >> Someone brought up recently whether or not they could exclude
>>> observations from botanical gardens in GBIF occurrence searches. I think
>>> they meant just occurrences from within actual gardens, not observations
>>> from more natural areas in a database provided by a botanical garden.
>>> >>
>>> >> Is something like this already flagged as an issue in the occurrence
>>> issue enum? I didn't see it myself. I guess one could find the data
>>> providers that are botanical gardens and exclude those if they are in the
>>> search results.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks for any guidance.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers, Scott Chamberlain
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