SANBI Taxonomy API

An API that support taxonomy parsing and verification as part of integration operations. Targeted at aseage by client applications - inside or outside the organisation. Although it is possible for users to interact with the API here, they are not the target use case and audience.

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Users: Start Parsing

Getting started with the simplest / lightweight API call to split scientific names into their semantic elements with an associated meta information.

Parse a scientifc name

Users: Start Verifing

Getting started with the simplest / lightweight verification API call to match & verifies a scientific name against a SANBI biodiversity data sources.

Verify a scientifc name

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