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

[Markus Döring]

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



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Markus Döring
Software Developer
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
mdoering at gbif.org<mailto:mdoering at gbif.org>
http://www.gbif.org





On 28. May 2017, at 20:03, Bastiaan Wakkie <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 past but 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 reuse for my purpose? Would it be best to use only api calls all over my website ot receive specie data and occurences?


kind regards,


Bastiaan Wakkie
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