Clearing-House Mechanism API Documentation

Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM)

The Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) is designed to promote technical and scientific cooperation and to provide access to data and information relevant to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Documented APIs

• User - Authentication — obtain the bearer token used by protected endpoints.
• Contact — create, read, update, delete, list and search.
• Organization — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Virtual Library Resource — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Capacity Development Initiative — search, get and field reference (read-only).

The documentation is being rebuilt one record type at a time; sections appear here as they complete review. See Record Types for the documented set, Realms for request routing, and Custom Types for the field types used in the tables.