Thanks, all, for the responses. The "Compare to ITIS" function does just what I want. I did a test run of 1000 names and it worked like a charm. I will need to do a little massaging because sometimes two or more ITIS IDs come back for each uBio ID. But I can handle that. Steve
David Remsen (GBIF) wrote:
Steve
Have you tried this? http://www.ubio.org/clients/ITIS/index.php
or this? http://www.ubio.org/services/mapper/index2.php
All this ubio talk makes me think we were on to something. Worth a thought about adopting the new stnadrds and tools and making it really smooth.
DR
On 20 May 2011, at 04:46, Steve Baskauf 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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