[API-users] Backbone data as SQL

[Scott Chamberlain]

Hi Chris, I started something a while back to automate building a SQLite
version of the backbone taxonomy (
https://github.com/ropensci/gbif-backbone-sql) but it's not quite done yet.
Idea is to run on Heroku (e.g., once a day), resulting in a fresh SQLite
version of the backbone taxonomy on Amazon S3.

Scott

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 7:50 AM Markus Döring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> the latest GBIF backbone is always available as a Darwin Core archive.
> This is mostly a collection of tab delimited text files with the accepted
> and synonym names at its core.
> You can find the latest and previous, archived versions here:
> http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/
>
> Best,
> Markus
>
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> Markus Döring
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> Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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> On 14 Nov 2016, at 16:42, Köhler Christian <C.Koehler at zfmk.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we are developing an application to curate taxonomic and morphological
> data for scientists. At the moment we are evaluating different taxonomic
> backbones to be used within our application. The GIBF taxonomic backbone
> seems to be an good choice in regards to quality, number of entries and
> acceptance.
>
> Due to the nature of our application, a web service to browse the
> taxonomy will not fulfil our requirements. A local copy of the GIBF data
> as SQL would be an ideal solution. I looked for this data publicly
> available to no avail.  "Harvesting" the GBIF rest api seems not a good
> option. Are there plans to provide current taxonomic backbone data in
> the future? Maybe the data is already available, but I failed to find it
> yet.
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
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