Browse use cases sorted by category below. See helpful links and other code examples for additional information.
Drop-in hours
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Demos
The following demos provide an overview on how to use APIs and packages mentioned within this repo:
- What is an API?, recorded presentation from the Ecological Society of America Data Help Desk, 2020
- Basic overview of the ridigbio package (view in browser) (download for local use)
- Overview of iDigBio APIs, with an example of using the download API
- Demo of downloading records within a bounding box
Sources for specimen data
Interested in where you can find biodiversity specimen data? We complied a table of biodiversity data aggregators here!
Use cases
Geospatial
Collections management
- Identify data that have been modified by aggregator data quality processing
- Report metrics for collections within an institution
- Report metrics for specimen-based project
Finding physical specimens
- Find specimens that are or could be subsampled for tissue
- Identify people to contact based on data provided
- Link from aggregator to CMS record