@Andrawaag I’m still trying to make sense of this myself, but with the switch to CoL old-style GBIF URLs such as https://www.gbif.org/species/10614692 are now HTTP 302 redirects to /taxon URLs (in this case https://www.gbif.org/taxon/SN8G ). So in that sense there is little change in user experience (e.g., the old URLs in Wikidata will likely resolve).
I have not looked at the Parquet files, but the switch to CoL has also meant that the direct links between a species URL and descriptions and images have changed. For example, if I do a
DESCRIBE <https://www.gbif.org/species/10614692>
on https://qlever.dev/api/gbif I get:
{
"@context": {
"rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#",
"rdfs": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#",
"owl": "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#",
"xsd": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#",
"schema": "https://schema.org/",
"foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/",
"dcterms": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/",
"dc": "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",
"skos": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#",
"wd": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/",
"wdt": "http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/",
"prov": "http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#",
"geo": "http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#",
"dcat": "http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#",
"dwc": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/",
"dwciri": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/",
"gbif": "https://rs.gbif.org/terms/",
"gbif1": "http://rs.gbif.org/terms/1.0/"
},
"@graph": [
{
"@id": "https://www.gbif.org/species/10614692",
"dwc:class": "Arachnida",
"dwc:family": "Theraphosidae",
"dwc:genericName": "Ceratogyrus",
"dwc:genus": "Ceratogyrus",
"dwc:kingdom": "Animalia",
"dwc:namePublishedIn": "Midgley, J. M., & Engelbrecht, I. (2019). New collection records for Theraphosidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) in Angola, with the description of a remarkable new species of Ceratogyrus. African Invertebrates 60(1): 1-, 13.",
"dwc:order": "Araneae",
"dwc:phylum": "Arthropoda",
"dwc:scientificName": "Ceratogyrus attonitifer Engelbrecht, 2019",
"dwc:scientificNameAuthorship": "Engelbrecht, 2019",
"dwc:specificEpithet": "attonitifer",
"dwc:taxonID": "10614692",
"dwc:taxonRank": "SPECIES",
"rdf:type": {
"@id": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Taxon"
},
"rdfs:label": "Ceratogyrus attonitifer",
"skos:altLabel": {
"@language": "en",
"@value": "Ceratogyrus attonitifer"
},
"skos:broader": {
"@id": "https://www.gbif.org/species/2153849"
},
"foaf:depiction": [
{
"@id": "https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/262540"
},
{
"@id": "https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/262541"
},
{
"@id": "https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/262542"
}
],
"gbif:hasDescription": [
{
"@id": "https://www.gbif.org/species/10614692/description/441571"
},
{
"@id": "https://www.gbif.org/species/10614692/description/441572"
},
{
"@id": "https://www.gbif.org/species/10614692/description/441573"
},
{
"@id": "https://www.gbif.org/species/10614692/description/441574"
}
],
"gbif:rank": {
"@id": "https://rs.gbif.org/terms/rank/species"
},
"gbif:sourceDataset": {
"@id": "https://www.gbif.org/dataset/7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b"
},
"gbif:taxonomicStatus": {
"@id": "https://rs.gbif.org/terms/status/accepted"
}
}
]
}
As far as I can work out, the links between taxon and image are gone, and the description links do not resolve (404 on GBIF). So my expectation is that as the Parquet files are updated to include CoL, any RDF you generate will lose a lot of the the taxonomic information that is in the current RDF version.
P.S. I’m working on a SPARQL browser as part of another project, and when I pointed it at the https://qlever.dev/api/gbif one of the things I discovered is that it has URIs with namespaces https://rs.gbif.org/terms/ and https://rs.gbif.org/terms/1.0/, is that intentional? Seems likely that they are the same thing and could be merged.
