Thanks Markus. Let me take a quick example from the downloaded occurrences.txt
The occurrence record has gbifid = 1056676532, taxonKey = 6092438 and speciesKey = 2482473. If we use http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/{int}/vernacularNames API with taxonKey = 6092438, then it gives 0 results ( http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/6092438/vernacularNames), where as if we use speciesKey in the API, it gives proper results as I would like to display ( http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2482473/vernacularNames). Will taxonKey be unique for every species or does it map to higher order species in the classification hierarchy? On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Priyank, > > 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? > > taxonKey is the primary key, speciesKey points to the accepted species but > your occurrence might be linked to a subspecies or even a synonym name > > 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 seems to do the job, > but what is {int} (speciesKey?) and how do I get it from occurrence data? > > As you said use the species API to get vernacular names. {int} is the > taxonKey from the occurrence record. 212, birds in this case: > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/212/vernacularNames > > > 3. I also need few representative images of the species. > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/{int}/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? > > I am afraid that does not exist. We use an image cache internally that > produces thumbnails, but its not part of the public API. > We also do not have flagged just one image as the representative. And > watch out for the media type, it can also be videos or sounds. > > cheers, > Markus > > > Thanks, > Priyank > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > > -- ~ Priyank -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150428/897e6726/attachment-0001.html>
