Bastiaan, I suggest you look into the EOL API, as there should be a way to filter for only images have confirmed identifications. Not sure how much there is for Syrphidae, but there might be a way to combine info from GBIF and EOL to achieve your goals.
http://eol.org/api Cyndy On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Bastiaan, > there is no flickr connection in the new portal, at least not directly. > All images are explicitly provided links by the occurrence publishers. > They might point to flickr if they happen to host the images there, but > the vast majority does not. > > Markus > > > On 12. Jun 2017, at 22:03, Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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