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 [https://www.idigbio.org/ Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)] is the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by the National Science Foundation. Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public. iDigBio is a data aggregator. This means that data is provided to iDigBio through various publishing mechanisms.
-Many consumers of the iDigBio aggregated data will choose to use the [https://www.idigbio.org/portal iDigBio Portal web site]. Additionally, to facilitate integration of iDigBio data with other web sites or services, iDigBio provides an API.
+Many consumers of the iDigBio aggregated data will choose to use the [https://www.idigbio.org/portal iDigBio Portal web site]. Additionally, to facilitate integration of iDigBio data with other web sites, services, or research uses, iDigBio provides an API.
 The iDigBio API is an abstraction layer for retrieving data from the iDigBio back-end data systems. This abstraction allows reuse and mashup of aggregated data without needing to understand the complex underlying details of the back-end data storage. Currently, the public API supports GET requests for data read operations only. The iDigBio API is a RESTful web service that delivers data primarily as JSON documents.
-Programmatic Search is a special case. See the section [[#Searching iDigBio]] below for more information.
 == Specification ==