Webservice Index Fungorum

Index Fungorum - webservice

Diversity Workbench provides the possibility to link your data to an external webservice. The webservice provided by the IndexFungorum allows linkage of taxon names. To establish a connection to this external webservice, click on the  button. A window will open where you can choose this webservice (see below). 

Enter the query restriction for the name in the Name field in Query conditions. The maximal number of records you get can be set in the max. results field (choose a low number if you have a slow connection to the internet). Then click on the search button to start the query. In the list of the left upper part the results of the query will be listed. In the right part of the window additional information is shown as provided by the webservice. For certain entries buttons will appear, as e.g. shown above for the basionym and the current name of a scientific name. Click on these buttons if you want to change to one of these related datasets from the webservice. If available, the informations provided on the corresponding website is shown in the lower part. To take the link from the webservice into your database choose one of the entries and click OK. The entry will change as shown below.

If you double-click on the link area a window will open, providing you with the retrieval information of the webservice. 

To get the whole information related to this entry as provided by the webservice, click on the  button. A window will open as shown below where the informations of the webservice are listed, If available, the lower part will show the corresponding informations of a website.

If you want to remove the link to the webservice, click on the the  button. This will only remove the relation to the webservice, not the cached name.