Hi Daniele, 1) the possible match type values can be found as a java enumeration inside the NameUsageMatch class: http://gbif.github.io/gbif-api/apidocs/org/gbif/api/model/checklistbank/NameUsageMatch.MatchType.html
2) Name matching is only working against the GBIF backbone dataset. It will never return any other dataset. If you use the verbatim=true parameter close alternatives are returned. This is regardless of the type of match. 3) Any name should be URL encoded when given as a query parameter. This is the standard way how values are encoded for HTTP GET parameters. All programming languages provide a way to encode your string in such a way, but if you do manual calls you can use online encoding service like this one here: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ For example the fake name "Abies M?tl? & D?ring? would be encoded like this: http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?verbose=true&kingdom=Plantae&name=Abies%20M%C3%BBtl%C3%AF%20%26%20D%C3%B6ring with regards, Markus On 10 Oct 2014, at 20:08, Daniele Palazzi <danicpalazzi at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm development a tool for data quality and I'm using the GBIF API to > validate scientific names. > I want to know if you have a documentation about the JSON response. I have > any questions: > 1- What the possibles values to matchType attribute? > 2- When the result is exact, always return a single dataset? And when the > result isn't exact, the attribute "alternatives" return the datasets that > better matche with the search term? > 3- What kind of URL I should use when the name query has space and special > caracteres, for example, ().,& ? > > Thank you, > > -- > > > > <image005.jpg> > > Daniele Palazzi Krempser > > Especialista em Banco de Dados > > Laborat?rio Nacional da Computa??o Cient?fica > > +55 24 2233-6183 > > +55 24 98822-4495 > > Skype: danicpalazzi > > dpalazzi at lncc.br > > www.sibbr.gov.br > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20141013/ef038dbd/attachment.html
