[API-users] Using GBIF api for a global insect family website

Wed Jun 14 03:32:36 CEST 2017

Bastiaan,

I suggest you look into the EOL API, as there should be a way to filter for
only images have confirmed identifications. Not sure how much there is for
Syrphidae, but there might be a way to combine info from GBIF and EOL to
achieve your goals.

http://eol.org/api

Cyndy

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Markus Döring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:

> Hi Bastiaan,
> there is no flickr connection in the new portal, at least not directly.
> All images are explicitly provided links by the occurrence publishers.
> They might point to flickr if they happen to host the images there, but
> the vast majority does not.
>
> Markus
>
> > On 12. Jun 2017, at 22:03, Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > Thanks for your answer. No problem, I will get my taxonomy from
> diptera.org the original source zoobank is using and as I understood gbif
> is using via zoobank (?). Yes I can imagine it would provide great
> complications assembling all different sources into one db :)
> >
> > I really like the flickr connection in the new portal but how do you
> check the validity of names given to the media in flickr? I can imagine
> there could be a lot of mistakes, does gbif offer any correction back to
> the flickr media made by 'authorized persons/professionals/taxonomists'?
> How would the correction flow go? Via the source you used or could this be
> done via gbif?
> >
> > thanks again!
> >
> > Bastiaan
> >
> >
> >
> > On 06/12/2017 10:00 AM, Markus Döring wrote:
> >> Hi Bastiaan,
> >> the GBIF Backbone only has the major Linnean ranks, i.e. a genus is
> attached to the family directly and there is no subfamily, tribe or
> subgenus. As we assemble the taxonomy by code from lots of different
> sources this would yield a very inconsistent taxonomy otherwise.
> >> Best,
> >> Markus
> >>> On 11. Jun 2017, at 10:13, Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com
> <mailto:bwakkie at syrphidae.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Markus,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the information!
> >>> I got the backbone and was fiddling around. Is SUBFAMILY, TRIBUS AND
> GUBGENUS etc. left out on purpose? I presumed actually this was in de db so
> created a recursive sql:
> >>>
> >>> WITH RECURSIVE fulltree(id,parent_key,is_
> synonym,level,rank,scientific_name,path) AS (
> >>>   SELECT id, parent_key, is_synonym, 1 as level,rank, scientific_name,
> scientific_name||'' as path from backbone where parent_key = 6920
> >>> UNION
> >>>   SELECT b.id, b.parent_key, b.is_synonym, ft.level+1 as
> level,b.rank, b.scientific_name, ft.path||' / '||b.scientific_name as path
> >>>   from backbone b, fulltree ft where b.parent_key = ft.id
> >>> )
> >>> SELECT * from fulltree order by path
> >>>
> >>> But as GENUS falls directly under FAMILY I received just an alphabetic
> list. Am I doing something wrong here? I might just miss the db concept...
> or is there a more detailed db which includes more ranks between Family and
> Genus/Specie?
> >>>
> >>> kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> Bastiaan
> >>>
> >>> On 05/31/2017 01:44 PM, Markus Döring wrote:
> >>>> Hi Bastiaan,
> >>>> the GBIF page for Syrphidae is
> >>>> http://www.gbif.org/species/6920
> >>>> or here in a preview of our upcoming new portal:
> >>>> https://demo.gbif.org/species/6920
> >>>> GBIF does not provide a software to setup your website, but you can
> surely use our API to build your own Syrphidae portal.
> >>>> The GBIF portals above both exclusively use our own API, so all the
> information is openly accessible to you:
> >>>> http://www.gbif.org/developer/species
> >>>> If you need help with the API please let us know what you try to
> achieve.
> >>>> This call for example lists all accepted genera in that family:
> >>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?datasetKey=
> d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&higherTaxonKey=
> 6920&rank=GENUS&status=accepted&q=
> >>>> This lists children of the genus imosyrphus Bigot, 1882:
> >>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/1534459/children
> >>>> ... or the family wth 10 records per page and an offset of 20:
> >>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/6920/children?limit=10&offset=20
> >>>> The images you see on our upcoming portal are occurrence images which
> you can retrieve with such a call knowing the gbif taxon key (Syrphidae in
> this case):
> >>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?mediaType=
> stillImage&taxonKey=6920
> >>>> Hope this helps and gives inspirations.
> >>>> You can also download the entire backbone if you want to:
> >>>> http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/readme.html
> >>>> We try to update it 3-4 times a year.
> >>>> Best,
> >>>> Markus
> >>>> --
> >>>> Markus Döring
> >>>> Software Developer
> >>>> Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
> >>>> mdoering at gbif.org <mailto:mdoering at gbif.org><mailto:mdoering at gbif.org
> >
> >>>> http://www.gbif.org <http://www.gbif.org/>
> >>>>> On 28. May 2017, at 20:03, Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com
> <mailto:bwakkie at syrphidae.com><mailto:bwakkie at syrphidae.com>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dear all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> From 1999 onwards I have created and maintained a insect family
> website about Syrphidae (http://www.syrphidae.com <
> http://www.syrphidae.com/>)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Main goal is a centralised meeting point for Syrpidologists around
> the world. My plan is to use the gbif backbone in the future but have no
> idea where to start.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Basically I used national checklists to update the data in the
> pastbut never reached the whole world (Europe and Africa where partly
> done). What is the best option for me? I know in the past there was the
> gibf-npt which was very suitable for my case but was discontinued.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are there examples I can reusefor my purpose? Would it be best to
> use only api calls all over my website ot receive speciedata and occurences?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> kind regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bastiaan Wakkie
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