Dear Markus, Thank you for the suggestions. I tried the Scientific name search under Occurence search. It is really promising and worth considering to go that direction. Why isn't it implemented at species search?
J?zsef 2017-09-07 13:36 keltez?ssel, Markus D?ring ?rta: > Give it a try then. Unless you have a huge user base this should not > be overloading GBIF. > We have decided to rather use a single field for the entire name and > do an autocomplete on that. > Maybe this approach also works for you, then you could also just use > the suggest as it is. > See the name filter here (type into "search" under Scientific Name): > https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search > > Best, > Markus > > >> On 7. Sep 2017, at 12:12, Szlamka J?zsef <szlajozs at gmail.com >> <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Dear Markus, >> >> My idea is that based on the validation services provided by GBIF to >> implement a search form with similar functionality (autocomplete, >> etc.) as the "Search for scientific names" form at Catalogue of life: >> http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/search/scientific >> >> What is your opinion, is this way with the GBIF suggest api plus >> client side filtering a proper way? Considering the possible number >> of unnecessary result records (everything where kingdomKey<>6) and >> the number of unnecessary fields in each record (everything except >> the GENUS field), wouldn't that be an unacceptable overload at GBIF >> side and performance / bandwidth issues at the requestor webapp side? >> >> Cheers: >> J?zsef >> >> >> 2017-09-07 11:47 keltez?ssel, Markus D?ring ?rta: >>> this is unfortunately not possible. >>> You will have to filter them clientside checking for records with >>> kingdomKey=6 or kingdom="Plantae" >>> >>> Markus >>> >>> >>>> On 7. Sep 2017, at 11:22, Szlamka J?zsef <szlajozs at gmail.com >>>> <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Dear Markus, >>>> >>>> Thank you very much. Do you have any idea, using the "suggest" API >>>> would it be possible somehow to filter the results for the Plantae >>>> kingdom only? >>>> >>>> J?zsef >>>> >>>> >>>> 2017-09-07 10:17 keltez?ssel, Markus D?ring ?rta: >>>>> Hi J?zsef, >>>>> >>>>> the GBIF API hardly anywhere accepts wildcards. Apart from fuzzy >>>>> matching entire words the only place you can use is the suggest >>>>> API which should help you with your problem. >>>>> >>>>> It is a kind of autocomplete and you have to match the beginning >>>>> of a word. It wont match in the middle or end. It does match on >>>>> all words or tokens of a string, so for a species name it will >>>>> match the genus part, the epithet or even the authorship. Results >>>>> are prioritized with author based matches coming last and higher >>>>> ranks being more important. >>>>> >>>>> Here is an example: >>>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado >>>>> >>>>> The suggest API only allows you to retrieve 100 records though, >>>>> but you can page through results up to 100.000 records max: >>>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100 >>>>> -> returns first 100 genera starting with Ado >>>>> >>>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=100 >>>>> -> returns 49 more genera starting with Ado >>>>> >>>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=200 >>>>> -> returns 0 genera as expected >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Markus >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 7. Sep 2017, at 08:36, Szlamka J?zsef <szlajozs at gmail.com >>>>>> <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Dear Scott, >>>>>> >>>>>> Many thanks for your answer. I also added the "&highertaxonKey=6" >>>>>> param to narrow the results for plant genera only. >>>>>> >>>>>> To be more precise what I exactly wish to achieve is as follows: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1./ >>>>>> I only want to search within the "Plantae" kingdom. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2./ >>>>>> Say, I look for the GENUS name "Adonis" but I only remember that >>>>>> the name starts with "Ado". >>>>>> >>>>>> 3./ >>>>>> So my ideal API call would run a wildcard search within PLANT >>>>>> GENERA names for "Ado*" and would result in a list of ALL >>>>>> (without limit) plant genera names starting with "Ado*". >>>>>> >>>>>> I played with the "/species/match", "/species/search" and >>>>>> "/species/suggest" sub-apis and with the "q" and "name" params. >>>>>> They don't accept wildcards and don't give the expected results >>>>>> for name chunks without wildcards. >>>>>> >>>>>> Now my only hope is that I left out some constellations or >>>>>> misused something. >>>>>> >>>>>> J?zsef >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 2017-09-06 23:21 keltez?ssel, Scott Chamberlain ?rta: >>>>>>> Have you tried something like >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS >>>>>>> >>>>>>> where datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c is for the >>>>>>> GBIF backbone taxonomy >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Scott >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM Szlamka J?zsef >>>>>>> <szlajozs at gmail.com <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello to all list members, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm new on this list and also new to the GBIF API. 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