[API-users] Why dataset metrics on type CHECKLIST only?

Scott Chamberlain myrmecocystus at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 23:50:06 CEST 2014


Tim,

Thanks again for the help. This helps clarify things.

Thanks, Scott

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote:

> Hi Scott
>
> The explanation is that occurrences come from a different backend system.
>
> There are metrics for occurrence datasets:
>   http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ad0d1a24-e952-11e2-961f-00145eb45e9a/stats
>
> But that page stitches together (client side) results from the occurrence
> metrics api
>   http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#metrics
>
> Check what the browser is doing to see the API calls (it’s ajax).
>
> Most occurrence counts you see scattered around GBIF.org web app are
> driven from the occurrence metrics API.  It’s very tailored to the
> GBIF.org site, as those metrics are difficult to track - we needed a very
> fast numerical system to follow the indexing traffic in real time.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Tim
>
> On 07 Oct 2014, at 22:38, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On the dataset metrics page
> http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry#datasetMetrics you describe that
>
> The dataset metrics API provides metrics for datasets of type CHECKLIST
> only.
>
> Curious why this is?
>
> Cheers, Scott
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