Not a GBIF staffer, just chiming in with my 2c: 1) There should be a taxonKey value in occurence results, which should map to the key value in the species API (which should, probably, always be non-null). If the taxonRank in the occurence is equal to SPECIES, this should be a species record as well (it might be identified only to genus, or it might be identifier below species).
2 & 3) EOL is a good source for both vernacular names, and high quality images of specimens. They also have a pretty decent API: http://eol.org/api You can use the search api ( http://eol.org/api/docs/search ) to query for the pageID of the taxon you're interested in, then use the pages api ( http://eol.org/api/docs/pages ) to pull the list of vernacular names and some media Alex Thompson iDigBio Infrastructure Team On 04/28/2015 08:56 AM, Priyank Tiwari wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am currently trying to display the GBIF data in a format which is > currently not supported by the GBIF API. For exmaple, displaying the > list of species within few KM radius from a specific location ordered > by species occurrence count. > > To accomplish this, I decided to use the occurrence download API to > fetch the data for all the required regions, store it in a database > and query as per my requirement. I decided to go with following 2 > simple tables in the database, > > 1. *Species* - stores species related data like scientific name, > vernacular names, representative image url, etc > 2. *Occurences* - stores occurence related data like eventDate, > gbifid, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, etc > > After having a quick look at the downloaded occurrences.txt file, > following queries came to my mind, > > 1. What should be my primary key for species table? I see 'speciesKey' > column as a candidate, but it is set as null for some species. The > occurrence record has a scientific name but no speciesKey. Any > suggestions on this? What field I can use as unique identifier for > species? > > 2. Vernacular names are missing for almost all the occurrences. Is > there any API by which I can also obtain vernacular names for a > species? http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/{int}/vernacularNames > <http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/%7Bint%7D/vernacularNames> seems to do > the job, but what is {int} (speciesKey?) and how do I get it from > occurrence data? > > 3. I also need few representative images of the species. > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/{int}/media > <http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/%7Bint%7D/media> seems to do the job, > but it returns a large image and I am looking for a small thumbnail > image. Any way to accomplish this? Also, any API that can provide me > both the vernacular names and imge url in single API call? > > Thanks, > Priyank > > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150428/81ec1479/attachment.html>
