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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species #175

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MattBlissett opened this issue Jun 15, 2020 · 3 comments
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species #175

MattBlissett opened this issue Jun 15, 2020 · 3 comments
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MattBlissett commented Jun 15, 2020

We need an issue to track this, as its mentioned in or is relevant to several others: gbif/portal16#1322, gbif/pipelines#257, gbif/pipelines#258, gbif/geocode#5

The dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/0qnb58 is out-of-date (last published more than 5 years ago, probably never successfully published to GBIF as we have zero records).

If it were published regularly, including the threat status in a species distribution extension, it would give us much more flexibility and reliability when indexing GBIF occurrence data for threat status.

We could then provide searches for "all occurrence records which are of threatened species" or "all extinct species". If we get dates (e.g. extinct since 1990) we can use that to check data quality. If we get ranges as identified regions (ISO_3166-2:DK or WGSRPD:DNK) we can use that for data quality, plus searches like "show me occurrences of invasives in Denmark" or "show me occurrences of vulnerable species in Denmark". I think, from the other discussions and their website, IUCN might be unwilling to openly publish full polygons, but that would then enable searches by exact location. Maybe those polygons will have to come some other way.

This is probably a fairly routine data publishing task (with assistance from the helpdesk if required). If IUCN have additional data that doesn't map cleanly to an existing extension, we can extend / create extensions as required.

Species distribution extension: http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/distribution.xml

Threat status vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/iucn/threat_status.xml

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gbif/pipelines#257 (comment)

There was a suggestion from IUCN to automate the process of IUCN checklist update from our side through their - Marie had said this was possible - and at the same time retrieve the threat statuses of the species

Through their API? We could build a checklist this way, but that's usually a last resort when an essential checklist datasource is not available in any other way. Let us know if that's what's expected.

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Using the code in https://github.com/mdoering/checklist_builder/tree/master/src/main/java/de/doering/dwca/iucn, this will soon (a few minutes) be live on GBIF: https://doi.org/10.15468/0qnb58

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