Tim, Thanks again for the help. This helps clarify things.
Thanks, Scott On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Scott > > The explanation is that occurrences come from a different backend system. > > There are metrics for occurrence datasets: > http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ad0d1a24-e952-11e2-961f-00145eb45e9a/stats > > But that page stitches together (client side) results from the occurrence > metrics api > http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#metrics > > Check what the browser is doing to see the API calls (it?s ajax). > > Most occurrence counts you see scattered around GBIF.org web app are > driven from the occurrence metrics API. It?s very tailored to the > GBIF.org site, as those metrics are difficult to track - we needed a very > fast numerical system to follow the indexing traffic in real time. > > I hope this helps, > Tim > > On 07 Oct 2014, at 22:38, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > On the dataset metrics page > http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry#datasetMetrics you describe that > > The dataset metrics API provides metrics for datasets of type CHECKLIST > only. > > Curious why this is? > > Cheers, Scott > _______________________________________________ > 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/20141007/9e0dfb3c/attachment.html
