Of course a user who is browsing the portal overview tab (the default one), can always click the verbatim tab in order to see if there could be some extended information in there. In my opinion, there should be a visual notification in the page, to tell user about those additional extensions data available when clicking the verbatim tab.
But when you are programming a web app which uses the API, this notification is much more important: it would make sense to have some API flag notifying about that (something like extensionsUsage: boolean, or even better usedExtensions: [array of extensions], for example).
With such a notification, the app could decide wether or not to make a second API call to retrieve the verbatim data (only if those extensions are relevant for what the app needs to show).
Otherwise, the only way to retrieve those extended data is to always make verbatim calls. Which in most cases would be an useless bandwith waste.
I just discovered the regular API calls are not exposing concepts published through the usage of extensions (or at least, some extensions).
An example from a taxon checklist extended with vernacular names, species distribution, literature References and MeasurementOrFact extensions:
The portal entry overview tab shows at least some of those linked concepts (for some reason, only the distribution data but nothing else): https://www.gbif.org/species/164940120 But the equivalent API normal call doesn't show anything: https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/164940120
If you go to the verbatim versions, then no problem to find all linked data: Portal verbatim tab: https://www.gbif.org/species/164940120/verbatim API verbatim call: https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/164940120/verbatim
Of course a user who is browsing the portal overview tab (the default one), can always click the verbatim tab in order to see if there could be some extended information in there. In my opinion, there should be a visual notification in the page, to tell user about those additional extensions data available when clicking the verbatim tab.
But when you are programming a web app which uses the API, this notification is much more important: it would make sense to have some API flag notifying about that (something like
extensionsUsage: boolean, or even betterusedExtensions: [array of extensions], for example). With such a notification, the app could decide wether or not to make a second API call to retrieve the verbatim data (only if those extensions are relevant for what the app needs to show).Otherwise, the only way to retrieve those extended data is to always make verbatim calls. Which in most cases would be an useless bandwith waste.
@abubelinha