This is as repository holding resources for running our coding club at Kew. Our coding club is heavily inspired by the INBO coding club, and borrows from it in many places.
See notebook_setup.md for details on how to access Microsoft Azure notebooks - a Jupyter notebook interface for R and Python.
| Title | Resource type | Useful links |
|---|---|---|
| GBIF | Occurrences (specimens and observations), taxon profiles, maps, institutional participants, datasets | Homepage: http://gbif.org API documentation: https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary Wrapper libraries: pygbif, rgbif |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | Bibliographic metadata, OCR pagetext, page images | Homepage: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ API documentation: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/docs/api3.html |
| Index Herbariorum | Institutional holdings and staff records for herbaria | Homepage: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/ API documentation: https://github.com/nybgvh/IH-API/wiki Wrapper libraries: https://github.com/jlramirez/index-herbariorum-python-client |
| CrossRef | Bibliographic metadata | Homepage: http://crossref.org API documentation: https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc |
| POWO | Plant taxonomy and distributions | Homepage: http://powo.science.kew.org API documentation: https://github.com/RBGKew/pykew Wrapper libraries: pykew, taxize |
| IUCN Red List | Conservation assessments | Homepage: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ API documentation: https://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/docs Wrapper libraries: rredlist |