[API-users] New Portal/Occurrece API functionalities

[godfoder]

Perhaps I spoke too soon about the download system, it looks like the 
repatriation flag might not be available there yet? (At least, when i 
tried to download a dataset, it returned 0 records.)

- Alex

On 06/15/2016 04:05 PM, godfoder wrote:
> Awesome work guys, this make a number of data mining queries I used to 
> have to run much easier and accessible right from the API/Download system.
>
> Any chance that the protocol field could be made searchable? Its 
> always frustrating when I can see fields in the API, but have no 
> ability to inspect their contents other that iteration. It's like the 
> data is locked away just out of reach.
>
> - Alex
>
> On 06/15/2016 09:44 AM, Federico Mendez wrote:
>>
>> Dear GBIFApiers, we are excited to announce some new features that 
>> are now supported by there GBIF Portal and Occurrence API:
>>
>>  1. Full text search is now supported. Some examples of this new
>>     function are:
>>       * Search by collector (recorded by):
>>           o http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?q=hobern
>>             <http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?q=hobern>
>>           o http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?q=desmet
>>       * Search by locality shows accurate results for most of the
>>         cases: http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?q=santa%20ana
>>         <http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?q=santa%20ana>
>>       * This service provides suggestions when a ‘similar/corrected’
>>         version of the query could show more accurate results:
>>         http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?q=kajsdkla&spellCheck=true .
>>       * This functionality is also supported by the GBIF portal:
>>         http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?q=cobra
>>         <http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search>
>>  2. Faceted search
>>      1. The GBIF portal now supports faceted navigation by: /basis of
>>         record, type status, data set, country,  year /and/ month/.
>>         Please, see this example:
>>         http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?basis_of_record=FOSSIL_SPECIMEN .
>>      2. The GBIF API supports faceted results  by: /basisOfRecord,
>>         catalogNumber, classKey, collectionCode, country, datasetKey,
>>         decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, depth, elevation,
>>         establishmentMeans, familyKey, genusKey, hasCoordinate,
>>         hasGeospatialIssue, institutionCode, issue, kingdomKey,
>>         mediaType, month, occurrenceID, orderKey, phylumKey,
>>         publishingCountry, recordedBy, recordNumber, repatriated,
>>         scientificName, speciesKey, subgenusKey, taxonKey, typeStatus
>>         /and/ year. /
>>      3. The occurrence API supports pagination request in facets
>>         using the parameters /facetLimit/ and /facetOffset/, see this
>>         example:
>>          1. First three country counts/facets:
>>             http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?facet=COUNTRY&COUNTRY.facetLimit=3&COUNTRY.facetOffset=0&limit=0
>>          2. Next three country counts/facets:
>>             http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?facet=COUNTRY&COUNTRY.facetLimit=3&COUNTRY.facetOffset=3&limit=0
>>
>>  3. A new repatriation filter allows to search for records whose
>>     publishing country is different to the country where the record
>>     was recorded in. For example, the following link shows the
>>     repatriated data of Costa
>>     Rica:http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?COUNTRY=CR&REPATRIATED=true
>>     .
>>
>>
>> Be aware that this is/ still in a experimental phase and its 
>> definition could change in the future. /Please refer to the API 
>> documentation http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence and don’t 
>> hesitate to contact us if you have further questions!
>>
>>
>> Best regards, GBIFS Informatics.
>>
>>
>>
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