Overzealous Identification

[cmcheatle]

@lichenthusiast-jp

I was not aware until now that GBIF accepted “research grade ID” data from iNaturalist, which for me mostly eliminates GBIF as one of my sources for geographic occurrence.

2 points :

• if there is a research grade record sent to GBIF from iNat, and it is subsequently corrected on iNat, apparently it is then removed from GBIF on the next synch of the data. Citation from a GBIF employee : https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-of-cultivated-plants-on-gbif/5296/3
• GBIF accepts many sources of data with far less review of the data than takes place on inat, even stuff like eBird where there is no review and no requirement for any documentation at all.