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Change Species API #121

Open mdoering opened 3 months ago

mdoering commented 3 months ago

Consider the following options:

(A) Deprecate Species API v1

and keep it running with stale current data
Expose Checklistbank thru a V2 API: expose only the ones registered in GBIF, keeping in mind that CoL/Checklistbank use compound keys

(B) Keep Species API v1

expose the old clb content with global integer keys. Stop indexing new data
add new query parameter to select a taxonomy. If not present default to the backbone and the old content for at least a year until we will switch, remove the old clb and default to the new col checklist
add datasetKey UUID and make all keys strings

[ ] Implications to Python and R libraries
[ ] Implications for the current UI