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Patrick Leary commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Cyndy Parr: The DwC-A Media file has columns for Publisher, generic Contributor and Creator (can be assumed to be photographer for photos, author for text, etc.). So those fields can be used to provide multiple agents and can also accept semi-colon delimited lists of multiple names in each column.
To get the precise role names and especially to include agent metadata such as the homepage, it is necessary to include the Agents file and include a semi-colon delimited list of AgentIDs in the Media file. This structure is not endorsed by the creators of the DwC archive as associating extensions with Media as opposed to Taxon breaks the star schema that the archives were intended to represent. EOL does allow references and agents associated with Media and I am happy to help a partner create such a archive with such associations. -
Patrick Leary commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Cyndy Parr: The thumbnailURL is relevant for videos as well as other media types. For example see http://eol.org/api/data_objects/1.0/207f85a543f0d9a455e02ed5e42ce71c.json . This field contains the URL of a thumbnail hosted by EOL. The thumbnail will have been resized to meet the needs of our site design.
Many of the thumbnails will have been supplied by our Content Partners but if we are able to create one automatically we will serve it using the same field. It is highly recommended that partners provide their own thumbnail if they have one so the frame can be representative of the video. -
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Patrick Leary commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
For those that are interested there is another good compilation at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Main/Index/Homonyms/A1.htm
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Patrick Leary commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Roderic Page: I just downloaded a version of the 2010 database provided in the second section on http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/instructions.html, which is at http://4d4life.eu/downloads/CoLupdate_01062010_data.zip . The record_id 2322671 does refer to Papio in this version (with LSID urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:d7a1f584-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:col20100701), so EOL is representing the July 1st updated version of the 2010 Catalogue of Life. I'm not sure how many identifiers are different between the versions, but I tried Papio hamadryas: http://eol.org/api/search_by_provider/1.0/6873687.json?hierarchy_id=529 and found them to be consistent, but many higher taxa have different record_ids. I believe one problem we had with the CD version was there were no orders of Aves - a problem reflected in the published version: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2010/browse/tree/id/2243478. Exposing the GBIF classification and identifiers in the API is a good idea - I'll put in a ticket to capture it.
