There has been a revival of the data bridge linking iNaturalist records to the UK system iRecord this week which has triggered conversation about potential issues to overcome moving forward. One crucial problem is that it’s a one-way street - we have the national hoverfly scheme leader (and probabl…

Update : I’ve been told this is connected to GDPR somehow… ( though not sure how )

[image] sbushes: Can anyone tell us what limits this part of the data link ? The identifiers on iRecord need to have their own iNat accounts and post the IDs to iNat. If they want it to be done from iRecord, they need to use the iNaturalist API to build that pathway to get the identifications…

Not that I am aware of, but I’m sure there are more considerations from the iRecord side that I don’t know.

Interesting. Thankyou! Perhaps @giselle_s knows more about what’s preventing this on the iRecord side then…

It’s definitely possible to post identifications via the iNaturalist API, so long as the identifiers have an iNat account. As far as the GDPR, iNaturalist is compliant with the GDPR (according to @ahospers ). As long as iRecord gets consent from users to communicate their data to iNaturalist, I don’t…

@sbushes : This may be a radical suggestion, but has iRecord considered migrating to iNaturalist as a platform? Many years ago, I assisted iSeahorse in migrating from their own homemade observation system to iNaturalist, and they have been happy with the results. Maintaining an observation database a…

[image] carrieseltzer: I’m sure there are more considerations from the iRecord side that I don’t know. I had a response on one of the Facebook groups from John van Breda : “It’s not technically impossible, but iNaturalist would not allow iRecord to connect to the API via a single “system” …

[image] zygy: Are there critical features of iRecord that are not available on iNaturalist? Yes. [image] zygy: has iRecord considered migrating to iNaturalist as a platform? Short version :…Never going to happen! :D - at least not in the near future. Longer version : …A real breakdow…

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sbushes October 2, 2021, 4:50pm 5

Thanks Carrie. So, there is nothing (like GDPR regulations) blocking them using the API to do this?

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