[API-users] Some questions from a begginer

[Eduardo Dalcin]

Hi folks,

This is my first message to the list. So, please, be nice :)

I'm working here at Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, together with the guys
at the National Center for Flora Conservation. We are doing the risk
assessment of the Brazilian flora to the government. We assess, so far, the
risk of ca. 6.000 species
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/453c7d453a2da4e332a97aeca082eb5547d8191b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcncflora.jbrj.gov.br%2Farquivos%2Farquivos%2Fpdfs%2FLivroVermelho.pdf&signature=500078d211c9dfde>,
but we still have to assess ca. 35.000. Access occurrence records for
Brazil is crucial, and every occurrence is important.

That means that we have to put together occurrence data from different
sources and, after the first batch of the risk assessment, we realize that
we need to build up our aggregator. We are planning to do this with the
Lontra-harvester, with the help of the guys at Brazilian GBIF Node.

So, the one of the firsts steps was to list the available resources to
understand the dimension of the task and, that brings me to my questions.

First:

The request:

http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e>


returns 4.982.689 records

And the request:

http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9d992e7b6733894b7f83de11d178c1437080224b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcounts%2Fdatasets%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=8b9c03790290e0ba>


returns (here
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/f15b92c6e49e193b58c96df93026b672d630a4fd?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&signature=c9883058799925fd>)
7.406.310 records

Comments?


Second:

The request:

http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a74c129abf8bbfa4b19b1e189b34df8e0487feca?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.gbif.org%2Fv1%2Foccurrence%2Fcount%3Fcountry%3DBR%26taxonKey%3D6%26basisOfRecord%3DPRESERVED_SPECIMEN&signature=135dde174fa6c96e>


return things like this:

"197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862":27629


But the consult of the same dataset:

http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?TAXON_KEY=6&DATASET_KEY=197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/6b3dbf4bfc7f45d67d05057979f1e72e2617ca68?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gbif.org%2Foccurrence%2Fsearch%3FTAXON_KEY%3D6%26DATASET_KEY%3D197908d0-5565-11d8-b290-b8a03c50a862&signature=b7f33a6c62020571>


Returns "null" (of course, is a FishBase!)

I have plenty of examples like this, on yellow here (not finished!):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc/edit?usp=sharing
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/21008349e3704f943677730af8f5afdc6cd3cc7b?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1msUjwMLoKwnXxJFzF20SeN_C65RIkGLbwaYyj459VTc%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&signature=b9533d9cc7784c04>


Comments?


I think those two questions is a good start. Please, let me know if I'm
doing something wrong.

Cheers,

Eduardo
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Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro - JBRJ
e-mail: edalcin at jbrj.gov.br
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