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Encyclopedia Of Life : list of animals etc. on earth #120

Open LinguList opened 4 years ago

LinguList commented 4 years ago

This is interesting, I learned through tuled about it: the database offers descriptions of animals (and plants?): https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol

This requires semi-automated linking, but would probably be interesting.

xrotwang commented 4 years ago

I'd recommend linking to the GBIF backbone taxanomy instead. GBIF aggregates bio-diversity data - also from EOL - and has a very good API. I link to GBIF from Tsammalex, and other projects.

xrotwang commented 4 years ago

GBIF also provides API access to occurrence data, which is really nice. E.g. you can overlay observations of a species with local names for it - and maybe infer loan directions from this?

LinguList commented 4 years ago

Excellent, so we can even use the API to semi-automatically retrieve items.