Hi Markus, Thanks for your answer. No problem, I will get my taxonomy from diptera.org the original source zoobank is using and as I understood gbif is using via zoobank (?). Yes I can imagine it would provide great complications assembling all different sources into one db :)
I really like the flickr connection in the new portal but how do you check the validity of names given to the media in flickr? I can imagine there could be a lot of mistakes, does gbif offer any correction back to the flickr media made by 'authorized persons/professionals/taxonomists'? How would the correction flow go? Via the source you used or could this be done via gbif? thanks again! Bastiaan On 06/12/2017 10:00 AM, Markus D?ring wrote: > Hi Bastiaan, > the GBIF Backbone only has the major Linnean ranks, i.e. a genus is > attached to the family directly and there is no subfamily, tribe or > subgenus. As we assemble the taxonomy by code from lots of different > sources this would yield a very inconsistent taxonomy otherwise. > > Best, > Markus > >> On 11. Jun 2017, at 10:13, Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com >> <mailto:bwakkie at syrphidae.com>> wrote: >> >> 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><mailto:mdoering at >>> gbif.org> >>> http://www.gbif.org <http://www.gbif.org/> >>>> On 28. May 2017, at 20:03, Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com >>>> <mailto: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 >>>> <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><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 > -- Digital signature: https://wakkie.org/FA3DED4C.asc fingerprint: 376B 6035 CD31 6437 A0FD 3165 C255 CD3D FA3D ED4C
