Webservice Palaeo DB

The Palaeontolgy Database - webservice

Diversity Workbench provides the possibility to link your data to an external webservice. The webservice provided by the PalaeontologyDatabase 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).

In the field Name in Query conditions enter you search string and click on the 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. The lower part of the window will show the webpage of the related information.

For synonyms, the accepted name will be shown as well as e.g. shown above. To change to the accepted name, click on the linked entry of the ID - in the example above id: 57254. To take the link from the webservice into your database choose one of the entries in the list 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 information related to an 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 in the upper part. If available, additional informations provided on a corresponding website will be shown in the lower part.

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