Hello, I’ve been entering data into inat for years, and I’ve noticed that, regardless of the species or time period, I can’t find much of my data on GBIF. However, my data and photos are under CC-BY or CC-BY-NC licenses, and most of them are research-grade. It’s very important to me that my data be …

the data gets interfaced only periodically. if you just changed your observation license across your observations to one compatible with GBIF, give it some time. if you still don’t see the data over in GBIF in a month or so, then provide a couple examples of observations that you see in GBIF and a c…

Just chiming in to say I’m in the same situation. My Research Grade observations on iNaturalist are over 13,000, but only around 7,900 appear on GBIF . I’ve also made sure that all my data is under a GBIF-compatible license for quite a while now, so I would have expected more to show up. I’m curiou…

I only switched from CC-BY to CC-BY-NC recently to test the effect but it should not affect the uploading to GBIF according to the documentation… Both licenses are supposed to be compatible. The fact is in GBIF, if I make a 300x300m selection square around my house (where I’m nearly the only observ…

@louis_aureglia The GBIF link you shared is for observations where you are listed as the primary identifier for the community taxon (identified_by), not for your own observations (recorded_by). Here is the link for the latter; it has 13190 records, just as you expected.

[image] pops34: I only switched from CC-BY to CC-BY-NC recently to test the effect but it should not affect the uploading to GBIF according to the documentation… Both licenses are supposed to be compatible. The fact is in GBIF, if I make a 300x300m selection square around my house (where I’m ne…

I have several observations of Erinaceus europaeus : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48368886 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48368886 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85215258 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85215272 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8…

[image] pops34: I only switched from CC-BY to CC-BY-NC recently to test the effect but it should not affect the uploading to GBIF according to the documentation… Both licenses are supposed to be compatible. maybe iNat staff have a way to check to see if your observations that didn’t make it t…

For what it’s worth I’ve noticed several of my observations are on GBIF despite not having the “featured on 1 site: GBIF” thing on them. So if anyone is going by that, they might want to actually check GBIF itself (though it does seem from the thread a number of obs that should be on GBIF are indee…

As noted in a previous thread, sometimes the GBIF icon does not appear until one checks and then unchecks a quality assessment field. I have found this to be the case with many of my observations. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/gbif-icon-appearing-on-rg-observations-only-after-a-data-quality-asse…

Why is very little of my data uploaded to GBIF?

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ra_teo May 26, 2025, 6:21am 11

I suggest patience. I used to have about 30 obs uploaded to GBIF, and all of a sudden, I woke up and found more than 700 observations! Maybe if you wait you’ll be rewarded soon.

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Why is very little of my data uploaded to GBIF?

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