This document aims to support Master Data Management planning by identifying the main data sources for development of a Monitoring System for Access and Benefit Sharing. The table below can be downloaded as a csv file here.

category source type url r python description
geographic GBIF api https://www.gbif.org/developer/maps NA NA Mapping API for taxonomic data from GBIF
geographic geonames text http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip NA NA 11 million georeferences place names.Field headings in main page read me
geographic google api https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/ NA NA maps and places services
literature crossref api https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc rcrossref habanero literature metadata, restful, json, R and python packages, solr search syntax
literature core.ac.uk api https://core.ac.uk/docs/#!/all/search rcoreoa pyoacore full texts of scientific literature
literature unpaywall api https://unpaywall.org/products/api roadoi NA identify open access publications in crossref
literature Biodiversity Heritage Library api https://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API rbhl NA Historic biodiversity publications
literature Open Academic Graph text https://aminer.org/open-academic-graph NA NA metadata for 330 million scientific publications
patent patentsview text http://www.patentsview.org/download/ NA NA US patent data in table format
patent patentsview api http://www.patentsview.org/api/patent.html NA NA US patents end point. Limited text search, lookup for inventors or applicants
patent USPTO xml http://patents.reedtech.com/parbft.php NA NA US patent applications full text
patent USPTO xml http://patents.reedtech.com/pgrbft.php NA NA US granted full text
patent abspat text https://storage.googleapis.com/owa/countries_index.zip NA NA machine learning resource, patent documents with country names
patent abspat text https://storage.googleapis.com/owa/abspat_index.zip NA NA machine learning resource, patent documents with species names
patent EPO xml csc@epo.org NA NA machine learning, Backfile to be ordered
patent WIPO xml http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/data/ NA NA machine learning, To be ordered 3900 swiss francs
patent EPO api http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/web-services/ops.html#tab-1 NA NA lookup inventor and applicant names, xml/json
patent EPO database https://forms.epo.org/service-support/ordering/patstat-order-form.html NA NA PATSTAT Global (raw data) - 2018, SQL database
patent India Patent Office NA NA NA NA Full text of india patent documents
researcher National Biodiversity Authority NA NA NA NA permit applicant data
researcher ORCID api https://orcid.org/organizations/integrators/API rorcid python-orcid enables researcher login and automated retrieval of public profile and publications. R and Python packages.
taxonomic GBIF text http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0048726-180508205500799.zip NA NA India taxonomic data
taxonomic GBIF text http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0048727-180508205500799.zip NA NA India full taxonomic data
taxonomic GBIF api https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary rgbif pygbif GBIF Restful API
taxonomic BSI NA NA NA NA Biological Survey of India
taxonomic IUCN api http://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/ rredlist NA API for redlist of endangered species
taxonomic BOLD api http://v4.boldsystems.org/index.php/api_home bold pybold API to Barcode of Life Databse
taxonomic GenBank api https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/develop/api/ rentrez Biopython DNA sequence data
taxonomic World Register of Marine Species api http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=webservice worrms/taxize NA marine species data
taxonomic Ocean Biogeographic Information System api http://www.iobis.org/manual/api/ robis pyobis Marine species data
taxonomic Global Names Index api http://gni.globalnames.org/ taxize NA All known species names including spelling variants
taxonomic Global Names Finder GO https://github.com/gnames/gnfinder NA NA Go programme for identifying species names in texts
taxonomic ZSI NA NA NA NA Zoological Survey of India
taxonomic French Institute of Pondicherry NA NA NA NA NA
taxonomic WII NA NA NA NA NA
taxonomic ICAR NA NA NA NA NA
taxonomic DST/UGC NA NA NA NA NA
taxonomic India Institute of Sciences NA NA NA NA NA
traditional knowledge TKDL NA http://www.tkdl.res.in/tkdl/langdefault/common/Home.asp?GL=Eng NA NA traditional knowledge data for India
traditional knowledge FRHL NA http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search NA NA Database of medicinal plants in India