The Spatio-Taxonomic Data Quality API

Rationale, Development and Examples

Javier Otegui Rob Guralnick John Wieczorek Dave Bloom Laura Russell

Last year’s TDWG

Spatial Quality API

● RESTful API● Based on Map Of Life infrastructure● Input:

o Coordinateso Country name or 2-letter country codeo Scientific name (binomial)

● Output:o JSON objecto Spatial and spatio-taxonomic quality flags

Assessments

Data Sources

Backend

noCoordinates: false,

noCountry: false,

isOutOfWorld: false,

isZero: false,

isLowPrecision: false,

isOutOfCountry: true,

isTransposed: false,

isNegatedLatitude: false,

isNegatedLongitude: false,

distanceToCountry: 69.872,

distanceToRangemap: 79.089

Example: VertNet Portal

http://portal.vertnet.org/

Limitations

Speed

One record at a time

Accessibility

https://jot-mol-qualityapi.appspot.com/_ah/api/qualityapi/v1/geospatial/lat/lng/country/binomial

Potential Uses

Pre-publication:Local quality improvement

Publication:Important step for publishing better data

Post-publication:Integration in aggregators, like VertNet

Thank you!