Talk:IDigBio API v1 Examples

TO DO:

1. convert Curculionidae to search
2. turn "Fetch a list of five MediaRecord IDs" into "display 5 thumbnails" using javascript
3. how to page through the api... add another page event to help differentiate these multiples of 5.
4. Search for records of genus 'Pohlia'. (from feedback survey)
5. How to get a list of unique values per field, a.k.a. list of values for auto-completion.
6. error handle HTTP 404 condition?
7. error handle HTTP 504 condition?
8. consider doing a morphological comparison of the butterfly Amblyscirtes aesculapius

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Amblyscirtes aesculapius in the Morphbank TTR recordset (iDigBio UUID e8c1413c-4e2e-46d7-9b6e-df0e416e3786).

6 specimen records, 6 images of the dorsal perspective ....

scientificname: amblyscirtes aesculapius

Subject Orientation: Dorsal

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APIs from other aggregators include:

• GBIF: http://www.gbif.org/developer/
• ALA: http://www.ala.org.au/about-the-atlas/downloadable-tools/web-services/, http://api.ala.org.au/
• BISON: http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/doc/services.jsp
• Canadensys: http://data.canadensys.net/vascan/api
• EOL: http://eol.org/api