Hello everyone,
i would like to gather some feedback from biologist and environmental specialists for a species names API i've been working on.
Its been a fun project so far to check out some technologies.
So basically it collects species names from https://species.wikimedia.org and provides a programatical access to the names. (Note: only Birds & Mammals at the moment and some species could be missing)
https://species-names.sloppy.zone/
So f.E. one could fetch all names of "Hippopotamus amphibius" in all languages.
https://species-names.sloppy.zone/name/Hippopotamus%20amphibius
or from any name from any language like
https://species-names.sloppy.zone/name/Seekoei
Or just translate the german name "Flusspferd" to afrikaans.
https://species-names.sloppy.zone/name/af/Flusspferd
Big fun!
But does it make any sense?
So do you experts from the field see any possible usage or integration?
Any suggestions for improvement are also welcome :)
My motivation came from aggregating animal images from various social media sources, that are not always tagged with a canonical scientific name.
Thanks!
Ivo