In the UK iNaturalist observations which reach ‘Research Grade’ are being downloaded into iRecord (the UK system) and thence passed to UK expert data validators for checking. It would appear that a few elements of iNaturalist records are causing problems for the UK validators; these problems being …

I think iRecord is accustomed to mandating a full name for all records, and making it publically accessible to posterity. Which is not bad, but very different to how iNat works. It seems like iRecord’s users must be a bit taken by surprise, because I had a look at the iRecord forum and they are very…

After spending the last while digging a bit further, I’m actually of the view I was perhaps overly pessimistic. A lot of iNat observations are still being accepted, it seems.

Some of the other issues with iNat data import to iRecord are highlighted in these posts: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/question-from-a-newbie-can-i-use-both-inaturalist-and-irecord/27561 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/irecord-verification-feedback-into-inaturalist/26879 From reading through t…

There is work-around for this. I work with a group that also prefers (not mandates) legal names and we have created a simple spreadsheet that we use as look-up to link iNat users and proper names when we import data. It does take effort to assemble but it is very useful. We aren’t trying to be com…

[image] SteveMcBill: I have changed my own User Name on iNaturalist from “SteveMcBill” to “steve_mcwilliam” so that my observations imported into iRecord are more obvious in terms of who they belong to and who made them. There’s no real need to do this. What you should do instead is set the D…

I record vascular plants and moths, I’m a qualified botanist (degree in Botany and NHM IDQ), but an amateur “moth’er”. I can see an issue straight away with “Research Grade” records, for some taxonomic groups (of which UK Vascular Plants would be an example) relatively few iNaturalist records are “…

UK Observation Problems for Validators

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marina_gorbunova November 23, 2021, 11:11pm 3

You can always change accuracy and spot itself from the app jfyi.

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