Mitwelten Explore Data Management

API usage

API Documentation: data.mitwelten.org/api/v3/docs

• Python examples
• R examples
• JavaScript examples on ObservableHQ
  • most active birds
  • daily bird detections visualizes as calendar plot
  • bird detections by taxon id

Data ingest

Install the dependencies to run the scripts:

cd mitwelten-explore-data-management/ingest
pip install -r requirements.txt

GBIF-Cache-DB update

Execute the cells in the update_gbif_cache notebook.

Insert new meteo measurements

1. Download a dataset from IDAWEB
2. Navigate to ingest/meteo/

   cd mitwelten-explore-data-management/ingest/meteo/

3. Make a copy of the file and edit the credentials

   cp credentials.example.yaml credentials.yaml
   nano credentials.yaml

4. Execute the insert script

   python insert_from_zip.py -c credentials.yaml  -i /path/to/the/zip.file

   Required arguments:
   • -c: path to the credentials file
   • -i: path to the downloaded zip file