Vocabularies interpretation

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Vocabularies used in interpretation

GBIF is currently using the following vocabularies in the interpretation:

LifeStage

Term: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/lifeStage
Prefilter: remove numeric prefix

Sex

Term: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/sex
Prefilter: remove positive numbers

GeoTime

The interpretation of the geological terms produces the geologicalTime term to make searching on these fields easier.

Source of the vocabularies

The source that is used is the latest release of each vocabulary. For example, you can find the latest release of the LifeStage vocabulary here: https://api.gbif.org/v1/vocabularies/LifeStage/releases?version=LATEST

The response contains a URL where you can download that version in JSON format.

It is possible to do a lookup on the latest release of a vocabulary: /vocabularies/{vocabularyName}/concepts/latestRelease/lookup The results may be different from the pipelines lookup because prefilters are not applied.