iDigBio vs World Bank

iDigBio is a keyless REST API exposing more than 150 million digitized natural-history specimen records — pressed plants, pinned insects, fossils, and more — contributed by U.S. museums and herbaria under an NSF-funded national digitization effort. Search and summary endpoints return Darwin Core fields (collector, locality, taxonomic name) as JSON, and the same backend powers iDigBio's public specimen-browsing portal.

The World Bank's Indicators API gives free, keyless REST access to the World Development Indicators dataset — thousands of economic, social, and environmental indicators across nearly 300 countries and regions, spanning six decades. Responses are paginated JSON or XML, covering countries, regions, income levels, lending types, topics, sources, and the indicator series themselves.