CITES in GBIF

[ManonGros]

There seem to be an interest in accessing CITES information on GBIF: https://discourse.gbif.org/t/ways-to-find-checklist-datasets-with-appendixcites-values-in-a-species-distribution-extension/4203. I imagine, ideally users should be able to search species and occurrences based on the CITES info.

As far as I can tell, and talking with @andrewrodrigues, we don't have a proper CITES dataset (like we do for the IUCN). The first step would be to make the data available on GBIF.

A related question, more generic question is:
if we start openign up policy relevant checklists to facilitate user access, do we need ot think about how that would be displayed on the species pages in GBIF?

[timhirsch]

My short answer is yes, and this seems to overlap with discussions we have had regarding better use of checklists for filtering and other purposes e.g. with regard to invasive species lists, national species lists etc. With regard to CITES I believe the data sources for Species+ may be most relevant - https://speciesplus.net/ . It is managed by UNEP WCMC with whom we are also working with regard to the Protected Planet data, and I have discussed potential collaboration on this which we could resume if it seems useful @andrewrodrigues

[MortenHofft]

We used to show it on all species pages (if there was any data), @thomasstjerne probably remember the details. I can see it is broken currently. That happens regularly. They change endpoints, block us for making too many requests etc. So having the data as a checklist would help for the species pages. And is a requirement for search.

[ManonGros]

There is a related issue here: gbif/portal16#1879