Search photos of biological species on Flickr

This SPARQL micro-service searches photos on Flickr, related to a certain taxonomic name. It takes as input a species scientific name (without authority nor date), and relies on the common convention used e.g. in the Encyclopedia of Life and by Biodiversity Heritage Library where photos are tagged with a taxonomic name formatted as: taxonomy:binomial=<scientific name>. A maximum of 100 photos are returned.

Canonical URL: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/flickr/getPhotosByTaxon_sd/
Input argument: The taxon scientific name without authorship nor date information. Mandatory.
Passed as the object of predicate http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificName.
Example value: Delphinus delphis
Service Description graph: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/flickr/getPhotosByTaxon_sd/ServiceDescription
SHACL shapes graph: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/flickr/getPhotosByTaxon_sd/ShapesGraph

Try it out

SPARQL query


        prefix schema: <http://schema.org/>
        prefix dwc: <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/>

        SELECT ?photo ?title ?img WHERE {

            ?taxon a dwc:Taxon;
                dwc:scientificName "Delphinus delphis";
                schema:image ?photo.

            ?photo a schema:Photograph;
                schema:name ?title;
                schema:contentUrl ?img.
        }

Output format

SPARQL response