Hi Markus, Thank you for the information! I got the backbone and was fiddling around. Is SUBFAMILY, TRIBUS AND GUBGENUS etc. left out on purpose? I presumed actually this was in de db so created a recursive sql:
WITH RECURSIVE fulltree(id,parent_key,is_synonym,level,rank,scientific_name,path) AS ( SELECT id, parent_key, is_synonym, 1 as level,rank, scientific_name, scientific_name||'' as path from backbone where parent_key = 6920 UNION SELECT b.id, b.parent_key, b.is_synonym, ft.level+1 as level,b.rank, b.scientific_name, ft.path||' / '||b.scientific_name as path from backbone b, fulltree ft where b.parent_key = ft.id ) SELECT * from fulltree order by path But as GENUS falls directly under FAMILY I received just an alphabetic list. Am I doing something wrong here? I might just miss the db concept... or is there a more detailed db which includes more ranks between Family and Genus/Specie? kind regards, Bastiaan On 05/31/2017 01:44 PM, Markus D?ring wrote: > Hi Bastiaan, > > the GBIF page for Syrphidae is > http://www.gbif.org/species/6920 > or here in a preview of our upcoming new portal: > https://demo.gbif.org/species/6920 > > GBIF does not provide a software to setup your website, but you can > surely use our API to build your own Syrphidae portal. > The GBIF portals above both exclusively use our own API, so all the > information is openly accessible to you: > http://www.gbif.org/developer/species > > If you need help with the API please let us know what you try to achieve. > This call for example lists all accepted genera in that family: > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?datasetKey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&higherTaxonKey=6920&rank=GENUS&status=accepted&q= > > This lists children of the genus imosyrphus Bigot, 1882: > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/1534459/children > > ... or the family wth 10 records per page and an offset of 20: > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/6920/children?limit=10&offset=20 > > The images you see on our upcoming portal are occurrence images which > you can retrieve with such a call knowing the gbif taxon key (Syrphidae > in this case): > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?mediaType=stillImage&taxonKey=6920 > > > Hope this helps and gives inspirations. > You can also download the entire backbone if you want to: > http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/readme.html > > We try to update it 3-4 times a year. > > Best, > Markus > > > > -- > Markus D?ring > Software Developer > Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) > mdoering at gbif.org <mailto:mdoering at gbif.org> > http://www.gbif.org > > > > > >> On 28. May 2017, at 20:03, Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com >> <mailto:bwakkie at syrphidae.com>> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> >> From 1999 onwards I have created and maintained a insect family >> website about Syrphidae ( http://www.syrphidae.com) >> >> Main goal is a centralised meeting point for Syrpidologists around the >> world. My plan is to use the gbif backbone in the future but have no >> idea where to start. >> >> Basically I used national checklists to update the data in the pastbut >> never reached the whole world (Europe and Africa where partly done). >> What is the best option for me? I know in the past there was the >> gibf-npt which was very suitable for my case but was discontinued. >> >> Are there examples I can reusefor my purpose? Would it be best to use >> only api calls all over my website ot receive speciedata and occurences? >> >> >> kind regards, >> >> >> Bastiaan Wakkie >> _______________________________________________ >> API-users mailing list >> API-users at lists.gbif.org <mailto:API-users at lists.gbif.org> >> https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > -- Digital signature: https://wakkie.org/FA3DED4C.asc fingerprint: 376B 6035 CD31 6437 A0FD 3165 C255 CD3D FA3D ED4C