Thank you for your response.
The original use case (although I’m enjoying this so much that I’m sure I’ll think of new ideas!) was creating a list of (grouped) animal names, via the following steps:
- Identify a specific ‘type’ of animal
- Easy for some things, like Birds (class = “Aves”)
- Harder for some others (like Reptiles), but manageable with some Wikipedia knowledge transfer
- Extract all species information for this ‘type’ of animal
- For this, I was querying the API like something along the lines of ‘https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?rank=SPECIES&highertaxonkey=212&limit=1000&offset=XXXX’
- Extracting all vernacular names, deduping/cleaning etc
- As soon as I’m at this step, given it’s just data cleaning I figured I’m home and dry
- As soon as I’m at this step, given it’s just data cleaning I figured I’m home and dry
From what you’ve provided, I think checklistbank is suitable… that being said, I’d appreciate thoughts as to whether you’d agree on that or not, as I’m not at all familiar with these datasets (and am finding them slightly overwhelming).