Dear API users, I'm developing a software tool for managing taxonomic information within a given area. This for (re)building community assemblages based on the data provided by GBIF. I need to have the global Id key for all the taxonomic levels but so far I haven't found the way for making the API to include these fields, it only gives me the names (strings) and I want an integer.
Can you throw me some light on the needed http request ? Or, Is it possible at all? Thank you for your time, Best wishes, Juan On 04/04/16 15:56, Christian Gendreau wrote: > Dear API users, > > Based on the recommendations from the GBIF Data Fitness for Use in > Distribution Modelling group and user feedback, the GBIF Informatics > team decided to apply some changes to the GBIF API for the > occurrences[1] response. We decided to deprecate the field > "coordinateAccuracy" in favor of the DarwinCore terms based fields > "coordinateUncertaintyInMeters"[2] and "coordinatePrecision"[3] as > provided(see details below) by the data publishers. > > The JSON response will remain the same structure except: > - coordinateAccuracy will never be found since it will be null and > null values are not provided explicitly (same as the current behaviour > for most records) > - coordinateUncertaintyInMeters and coordinatePrecision will be > included (example: coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 1000, > coordinatePrecision: 0.0001) > > These changes should not break existing applications using the JSON > API, and therefore as a non breaking change can be included in the V1 > of our API as an enhancement. > > Details: > -coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: > DarwinCore definition: "The horizontal distance (in meters) from the > given decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude describing the smallest > circle containing the whole of the Location. Leave the value empty if > the uncertainty is unknown, cannot be estimated, or is not applicable > (because there are no coordinates). Zero is not a valid value for this > term." > GBIF comment: double, must be greater and not equals to 0 and lower > than 5000000 (5000 km), as provided by data publishers with unit > stripped (if the value is provided in imperial, conversion will be > applied), related issue > OccurrenceIssue.COORDINATE_UNCERTAINTY_METERS_INVALID. > > -coordinatePrecision: > DarwinCore definition: "A decimal representation of the precision of > the coordinates given in the decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude." > GBIF comment: double, must be between 0 and 1, elated occurrence issue > OccurrenceIssue.COORDINATE_PRECISION_INVALID > > We expect the changes to be available next week (between 11-15 April > 2016). > > The GBIF Informatics team > > ---- > [1] http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence > [2] http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/coordinateUncertaintyInMeters > [3] http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/coordinatePrecision > > GBIF Issue tracking reference: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2795 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20160404/03f97633/attachment.html>