a couple of somewhat related things:
first, does anyone know how / when the links back to the ALA occurrence records get populated on the iNaturalist observation records?
i was looking at platypus records in ALA that came from iNaturalist (https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?q=data_resource_uid:dr1411&fq=species_group:"Mammals"&fq=common_name:"Platypus"&pageSize=100), and it looks like only some of the related iNaturalist observation records have links back to the occurrence records in ALA.
for example:
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this observation submitted to iNat on 4 Apr 2020 has a link back to ALA (look in the lower half of the page, to the right of the Data Quality Assessment checklist):
iNat record: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41416567
ALA record: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/5a596a55-94b8-4484-8edd-f90174b69b02 -
but this one submitted to iNat on 30 Mar 2020 does not have a link back to ALA:
iNat record: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41088673
ALA record: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/e9c0e9c4-87ce-4ddd-bb29-1ebe1f0b3369 -
and this one submitted to iNat on 24 Nov 2019 also does not have a link back to ALA:
iNat record: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36015398
ALA record: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/863468c7-459a-495a-9ee5-c3e91d6cddad
i was thinking about this because it likes like the process that populates links GBIF occurrence records had been delayed for a few months (https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-gbif-outlinks-to-show-up-on-observations/12890). i wonder if something strange could also be going on with the process that populates the ALA links?
the second thing:
this page (https://support.ala.org.au/support/solutions/articles/6000223721-how-is-data-harvested-from-inaturalist-and-fed-into-the-ala-) says:
Observations will come across to the ALA if they are:
- Shareable under a Creative Commons license
- In Australia
- Verifiable observations - those which are marked Needs ID or Research Grade
this observation that appears to have all rights reserved has made it over to ALA:
iNat record: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47090486
ALA record: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/56a8fdc2-d9a7-4434-9c7a-153bbe822799
so is there something that supersedes the “Shareable under a Creative Commons license” criterion?