Hello! I used the iNatrualist API to download a couple hundered research-graded and cc-by-nc licenced observation images for a computer vision project recently, and I wonder how should I cite the observation properly for a paper. I have read the https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#cite guidline,…

There is no DOI associated with using the API. You’ll need to publish some sort of table/appendix or other way of citing the observations individually that meets the CC license guidelines for each of the observations that you use. There are some other posts that may be of use: https://forum.inatur…

The way I’ve cited images is with this format: [name], [hyperlink with the platform as the text showing], [license].

The iNaturalist API and the GBIF API are different, so GBIF mints DOIs but iNaturalist does not. If you can, and it sounds to me like you should be able to based on your description of the project, you should download the same data from GBIF to get a DOI for your project. Unfortunately, just citing …

Citation Question: how to cite data acquired from the iNatrualist API

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Citation Question: how to cite data acquired from the iNatrualist API

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