[tdwg-content] ITIS TSNID to uBio NamebankIDs mapping

[Matt Jones]

Hi Steve --

You should be able to use the uBio web services in a simple script to look
these up.  The problem will probably be that you'll get too many matches.
The web services are described here:

http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=xml_services

You probably would use the namebank_search function.  Here's an example call
via URL:

http://www.ubio.org/webservices/service.php?function=namebank_search&searchName=Quercus+rubra&sci=1&vern=1&keyCode=YOUR_CODE_HERE

You'll need your own key code for accessing the service, which you can get
here:
http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=form

Note that the strings returned are base64 encoded, so you'll need to decode
them before use.

Matt


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Steve Baskauf <steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu
> wrote:

> I have generated a csv spreadsheet of about 39 000 plant names for the
> U.S. which has the ITIS TSNIDs for the names in a column.  I would like
> to have the uBio Namebank IDs in another column of the table.  I have
> been looking them up on the uBio website by typing in the names as I
> need to know the IDs, but after doing about 300 of them, I'm getting
> tired of it.  Does anybody have a clever idea of a way to get the other
> 38 000 Namebank IDs without looking them up.  I'm sure that it would be
> possible to find this out because uBio gets names from ITIS.  However, I
> haven't seen any clues about how to do it in an automated fashion.  I'm
> guessing that there might be some way to use the uBio web services, but
> if so, it isn't obvious and I probably don't have the skills to carry it
> out anyway.
>
> Any ideas?
> Steve
>
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