Ok thanks for the URL insight. Regarding listing observations on multiple sites… Would GBIF think there are two observations of “bird X” by two different observers? or is it sophisticated enough to deduce that a report on eBird is the same observation shown on iNaturalist and conclude there w…

I am unsure you can or will get a definitive answer about GBIF’s behaviour or practices here. Externally it appears they simply load both records. But I’m not sure of that. Part of it may be that Ebird locations are a central point in that hotspot, versus what can be an exact gps on iNaturalist, so …

Whoa, ya… I visited their website (GBIF). Not sure what kind of academic I need to be to ‘get it’. Pretty intense was my initial thought. They obviously need a pretty clever algorithm to gather records and then figure out which ones are duplicates/overlap. I mean if you post your ultra rare ‘three…

I personally only submit birds to eBird because of the potential for duplication issues, because I think eBird is better suited for recording and organizing bird observations, and because I don’t feel like having to deal with the submission process for both websites. A lot of people I know do submi…

Yes, I think along the same lines as you. But I wonder… No website is going to shun traffic, so it’s unreasonable for one to direct people to only load certain observations only once and to another site. (for you and I at the very least) it depends on the altruistic behaviour of the user: fir…

[image] ebo2112: Finally, if there’s a link or list of databases that GBIF uses, it would be most interesting to share! GBIF gets data from (as I write this) over 43,000 different sources. Some are static one time loads, like a museum collection inventory (or at least infrequently updated) ot…

Yes precisely… plus even ‘armchair birders’ might be motivated to go and see and log a lost winter-in-Ottawa Lazuli Bunting. Now suddenly there are a hundred occurrences logged! D’oh! If you create a table it could be any of the following cases: hundred different birds, one observer logs them. hu…

I’m not even sure it is the intention or the role of GBIF to make the dataset they host ‘clean’. That’s an impossible metric to even define, let alone how it could be achieved. Their focus does seem more on the aggregation, and then let users do with it as they see fit.

I don’t think it really matters. Having you add to both is no different than having two people go to the same ebird hotspot on the same day and add the same robin. eBird internally has mechanisms to estimate abundance and absense, and I am sure they have some algorithm or method to parse out the fac…

[image] charlie: It would be neat if there were a way to link the sites so the iNat life list tracking and perhaps calendar would also include eBird sightings OOh!!! Yes please! I know that’s not in the cards at least for this moment. I too still struggle with knowing whether to duplicate.…

Submit the same sightings to both eBird and iNaturalist?

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tiwane April 5, 2019, 5:45am 5

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Submit the same sightings to both eBird and iNaturalist?

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