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Application programming interfaces (services and clients) for biodiversity information
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Consider if an offline tool might also be useful #68

Open nickynicolson opened 2 years ago

nickynicolson commented 2 years ago

If you have an API call which performs a logic function, rather than exposing data, you might consider if a standalone / offline tool which replicates the API call would make it more applicable for some use cases.

The bionomia parsing API call and associated dwcagent parsing tool by @dshorthouse is a good example of this:

The API call allows users to work out if the function is useful and to use it for low volume requests, the standalone tool may be better for high call volumes.