How can I see if observations are featured on other sites?

[bobmcd]

@pisum

generally, research grade observations with an observation license of CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-NC will get pushed over to GBIF every so often, and similarly, any of those observations with an observation field that specifies some sort of interaction with another taxon will get pulled into GloBI eventually.

I’m not sure if you were trying to imply contrary to what I am stating here. I have found that RG observation info was pulled into GloBl even with No license (all rights reserved).

[pisum]

@bobmcd

I have found that RG observation info was pulled into GloBl even with No license (all rights reserved).

you’re right about this. i thought GloBI used the same source data as GBIF, which i thought would have included only observations with certain licenses, but that must not be true.

[dgwdoesthings]

@bobmcd

So that I can find (for instance) bee observations that I have yet to fill an associated plant field, is there an &“without”_outlink_source=GloBl parameter?

&“without”_outlink_source=GloBl does not exist but I believe you can acheive the same thing in another way.

If the observation doesn’t have a field you can search for the lack of a field with

&without_field=

example of this in use:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=52775&without_field=Interaction->Visited%20flower%20of

The issue with this being that it includes observations where the subject not observed with a flower, and you run into similar issues with all of the possible filters

using the observation fields listed in the link below you could search observations lacking in an observation field that Globi would export from

@pisum

https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist/blob/main/interaction_types_mapping.csv

Someone out there probably has a better solution
maybe something similar to @jeanphilippeb unknown projects that use the api and cv

[jeanphilippeb]

Suggestion: create a new feature request, for adding filters like “outlink_source=GloBI” in the definition of a collection project, then create a project with this filter and use the project for filtering out observations.
Else, a new feature resquest for creating the exclusion filter.

Using a program to tag in someway observations that are in GloBI would require many people to run the program non-stop, that would be a much bigger task than populating the phylogenetic projects (“unknown” observations projects). This solution would require a huge support from the community in favor of this feature.

[pisum]

@bobmcd

can find (for instance) bee observations that I have yet to fill an associated plant field

searching for observations not in GloBI would be an indirect way to try to do this. to do it more directly, you could just export observations, making sure you include the observation fields that are relevant, and any observations without those obs fields eould be the ones to focus on.

[bobmcd]

@pisum

just export observations, making sure you include the observation fields that are relevant,

Sounds like a good choice. With the different projects, there is a small flurry of fields to try to remember. GloBl was going to be that meeting point where they come together.