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Server-side code driving iDigBio's search functionality.
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Names endpoint #12

Open sckott opened 9 years ago

sckott commented 9 years ago

Would be great to have a /names endpoint - perhaps with parameters for querying/filtering

mjcollin commented 9 years ago

For a reference: http://www.gbif.org/developer/species

There are a lot of things GBIF does that are not in scope and we don't have data for but these are some things others are doing with names.

sckott commented 9 years ago

Right, makes sense. if this is out of scope, no worries

mjcollin commented 9 years ago

Really, I was implying that GBIF has more/different data than us and some of the functions might not be possible.

I'd like to find some functions that we can do though. A "distinct names from this query" end point seems obvious start.

debpaul commented 9 years ago

This would be a great place to start.

sckott commented 9 years ago

i guess this is related to #1

sckott commented 8 years ago

Any news on this?

godfoder commented 8 years ago

No movement on a names endpoint per-se, but the beta search api (http://beta-search.idigbio.org/v2/search/records) is currently pointed at a prototype index that has GBIF taxonIDs and canonical names filled out for many of the records (39/56 Million). A combination of GBIF's API and ours would allow you search for a specific taxonID, then search idigbio for that taxon ID.

Ex: Puma concolor http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?verbose=true&kingdom=animalia&name=puma%20concolor

TaxonID: 2435099

https://beta-search.idigbio.org/v2/search/records?rq={%22taxonid%22:2435099}

sckott commented 8 years ago

Nice, seems like a useful feature - being able to search for occurrences in idig based on gbif taxon ids