As part of the reporting to the GBF we need to be able to know the
“Growth in species occurrence records accessible through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility” see
So this make me think on using the APi to download the records for a given time period but that only gave me the records on that period. What I need is to know the numer of the total records that were published trough gbif on a given time period (fox example how many records were published on GBIF on 2024) and then aply filters as countries, species, familys, etc.
I dont know if this is clear, can someone helpme with this.
Yes i saw that snapshoots but we need more filters, by institution, by installation, by publisher, Only snapshot are not enough for reporting to the GBF NBSAP
@jwaller, many thanks for the links! I see I had the wrong impression about basisOfRecord in the early years of GBIF. I thought most occurrence records were from collections, whereas the analytics show that observations dominated in 2007:
It’s still true, though, that today’s GBIF is overwhelmingly a repository for contemporary observations. That suits today’s conservation planners, but collections managers might be feeling that the need to share their CMS records with GBIF isn’t as urgent as it once was.
This will be more efficient than having to download everything, but it’ll still take a bit of time. This way you’d be able to get it on a monthly resolution from 2021 onwards.
It’ll take some doing but isn’t too complex, it’ll just take a while to run and use up some bandwidth.
I can probably whip up a quick example if that’d be helpful.
EDIT: Something like Preston would also do the trick. Likely snapshots exist that go even further back, with much more columns supported than the earlier discussed options. But it’ll take some CLI knowledge to make it work, nothing too difficult though!
It is possible to create an export grouped by snapshot date, but I would need a more detailed description of the type of counts/aggregation that you would want. @vechocho (PS I am going on holiday for two weeks, so it might not arrive to you until May 12)
