The project includes observations of an undescribed species, so observations can’t be filtered by taxon (species). Does anyone know how to filter GBIF observations that are in an iNaturalist project? Or tagged with an Observation Field?
I think my answer is here, but I don’t think searching for hundreds of iNat observations using the URL actually works. So I wanted to check for an alternative: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-you-filter-on-gbif-using-inaturalist-tags/53903/8
Thanks!
I guess this would boil down to whether the iNat project ID is exported as Darwin Core metadata in its publish to GBIF. I’m not sure that it is.
e.g. here’s a Pimoa altioculata observation of mine on GBIF; this obs is part of the iNat Spider Working Group project: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/5064061992
I’m not seeing any metadata pertaining to the iNat project on the GBIF record. Maye downloading the raw Darwin Core data would show something, but I’m not too confident…
Oh, nice catch! This does seem to only behave in a predictable (and thus useful) way for traditional projects, unfortunately.
Traditional projects were added to iNat’s GBIF export at the beginning of the year: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/commit/b0b073bd4ef9056068d22d621a351019549e55c9
They’re returned in the projectId field from the GBIF API.
if the observations are of an undescribed species, would they have even made it over to GBIF? i suppose genus-level cannot-be-improved observations could be eligible to be pushed over to GBIF, but if they are still needs ID in iNaturalist, they won’t have been pushed to GBIF, if i’m thinking about that correctly.
Oh, duh! Of course they’d not be in GBIF. Thanks for reminding me of that. So if I refer to these observations in my publication, I won’t be able to cite them via GBIF. I’ll just create a supplemental file with all of the iNaturalist URLs. Thanks!
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