[API-users] Asynchronous download DwCA format no publishingOrgKey

Eli Agbayani eagbayani at eol.org
Thu Aug 16 15:55:26 CEST 2018


Thanks Matt.
Yes, that will work for us.
Will use the dataset API to get publishingOrgKey.
We've actually already cached the ~20K dataset calls, so we are good.
Thanks much.
Eli


On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Blissett <mblissett at gbif.org>
wrote:

> Dear Eli,
>
> I don't know why it is this way, according to our API the term
> publishingOrgKey is "not exposed in user downloads":
> http://gbif.github.io/dwc-api/apidocs/org/gbif/dwc/terms/
> GbifInternalTerm.html
>
> Given a datasetKey (which is in the DwCA format), you can query for the
> publishingOrganizationKey with a query like http://api.gbif.org/v1/
> dataset/2814930a-3b93-48d6-b887-00979481ac9e, for example using "curl"
> and "jq":
>
> curl -Ss http://api.gbif.org/v1/dataset/2814930a-3b93-48d6-
> b887-00979481ac9e | jq .publishingOrganizationKey
>
> There are 20,000 datasets in a complete download, so making these queries
> and caching the result will probably be faster than using both download
> formats.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Matt Blissett
>
> On 12/08/18 20:40, Eli Agbayani wrote:
>
> Dear GBIF,
> Is there a reason why the Asynchronous download DwCA format doesn't have
> publishingOrgKey while the CSV format has it.
>
> We want to use the DwCA format because of the multimedia addition but
> realized the publishingOrgKey was missing.
>
> Hopefully publishingOrgKey will be included in the DwCA format so we don't
> need to download both formats.
>
> Thanks,
> Eli
>
>
>
>
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