[API-users] Some questions from a begginer

Fri Sep 4 11:39:14 CEST 2015

Hi Markus,

Yes, that's a shame I can't have country and "nub" together. There is any
hope about it?

Eduardo

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Markus Döring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:

> Eduardo,
>
> as you might have seen from my issue comment the webservice uses a
> different parameter name for taxonKey which is a bug we need to fix at some
> point.
> Please use nubKey for now to use the service like that:
>
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?nubKey=6
>
> The real problem for you will be that we do not support the combination of
> the country and the taxon filter, just one of the two. So you cannot search
> for plants in Brazil I am afraid, just for datasets about Brazil and
> datasets with plant records.
>
> Markus
>
>
>
> > On 03 Sep 2015, at 14:12, Eduardo Dalcin <edalcin at jbrj.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Jan. I'll keep exploring and I'll be in touch, if I need.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Eduardo
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > Eduardo Dalcin
> > Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro - JBRJ
> > e-mail: edalcin at jbrj.gov.br
> > Trabalho / Work: +55 21 3204 2116
> > --------------------------------
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> >
> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Jan Legind [GBIF] <jlegind at gbif.org>
> wrote:
> > Dear Eduardo,
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for getting in touch with us about these issues.
> >
> >
> >
> > The first request
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
> returns the number of records located in Brazil for the facets in the
> request.
> >
> > The second query
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
> uses the Occurrence Inventories web service
> http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#inventories which does not
> support the basis-of-record facet in the /datasets request. I understand
> that it would be better if the API response yielded an error message in
> this instance.
> >
> >
> >
> > Concerning the other issues – you are indeed right that the counts do
> not make sense in the context of taxon key 6 which is Plantae. Actually the
> API does not handle the taxonKey search at all, contrary to what the
> documentation states:
> >
> >
> >
> > /occurrence/counts/datasets
> >
> > GET
> >
> > Counts
> >
> > Lists occurrence counts for datasets that cover a given taxon or country.
> >
> > country, taxonKey
> >
> >
> >
> > As you can see here,
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?taxonKey=6 , this
> request doesn’t return anything.
> >
> >
> >
> > The GBIF developers will handle this issue in due time.
> >
> > You can follow the issue in our bug tracking service here:
> http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2828
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > With best regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Jan K. Legind
> >
> > Data manager, GBIF Secretariat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: API-users [mailto:api-users-bounces at lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of
> Eduardo Dalcin
> > Sent: 2. september 2015 20:06
> > To: api-users at lists.gbif.org; dev at gbif.org
> > Cc: João Monnerat Lanna; Natália Queiroz; Diogo Silva; Laura; Ricardo
> Avancini
> > Subject: [API-users] Some questions from a begginer
> >
> >
> >
> > 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, 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
> >
> >
> >
> > returns 4.982.689 records
> >
> >
> >
> > And the request:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/counts/datasets?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
> >
> >
> >
> > returns (here) 7.406.310 records
> >
> >
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> >
> >
> > Second:
> >
> >
> >
> > The request:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?country=BR&taxonKey=6&basisOfRecord=PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> >
> >
> > I think those two questions is a good start. Please, let me know if I'm
> doing something wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Eduardo
> >
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > Eduardo Dalcin
> >
> > Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro - JBRJ
> >
> > e-mail: edalcin at jbrj.gov.br
> >
> > Trabalho / Work: +55 21 3204 2116
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
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