Long time lurker, first-time poster (been an iNaturalist member since 2012). I am working on some smart camera machine-learning enabled classifiers on ad hoc LoRaWAN networks for remote field deployment, for a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant project, which is open source.
Boy, it sure seems like you would be the right person to talk to about making our back-end database play nicely with existing major knowledge engineering systems.
We poached a senior engineer from Microsoft, have professors from three universities, and an excellent backend database hacker from a Medical school. We want our project to play well with iNaturalist data structures. Are you available to help us understand how we can be most compatible?