Hi Jen,
I hope I am posting this question to the right forum – my question is related to EOL open data services.
You hinted in an earlier post that EOL had harvested some photos from iNaturalist:
If I wanted to match EOL species entries with iNaturalist pages, what approach would you suggest? I looked at the identifier maps here:
but I didn’t see anything that seemed like it would be of much help with mapping EOL to iNaturalist.
Thank you!
Apologies for the state of our downloads platform, @Greg_Turk ! The product we’ve been using has gotten very difficult to maintain and things are in some disorder as we migrate to zenodo. As it happens, one of my colleagues just set up the file I think you need. The full list of resource_id values is linked from there but the one you want, for iNat, is 53. Let me know if that doesn’t help!
Jen
Thank you so much, Jen! Also, please pass along my thanks to Katja Schulz if you happen to see her. This is exactly what I was looking for. Once I knew that these records contained iNaturalist references, I was able to figure out that the resource_id that I want is 1177. I found 485171 relevant records, which is a huge treasure trove.
Oh yes, that resource works too. We do have a couple of datasets representing the iNat system. Good hunting!
It seems that this resource is excluding a lot of values. At least those taxa from iNaturalist with zero observations or zero until recently e.g. Geomys tropicalis (EOL:308549 iNat:44056)
Yes, that is most likely a lag issue. We are overdue for an update of iNaturalist; we’ve been putting it off while we prepare for a server upgrade. Sorry about the delay!
Jen
There are a lot of missing values though, once updated will it also include those with zero observations?
Hi Bjoe,
Resource 53 is just for iNat taxa with images used on EOL, so it will not have mappings of the full iNat taxonomy. However, I think it’s a good idea for us to do a full mapping of all iNat taxa, so I’ve put that on our list of things to do. I’ll get back to you once we have the mapping.
Thanks!
There are also a few missing values for 1178 (GBIF IDs), but that might just be because it’s not up to date.
I did find that there are a lot of vernacular names on the site which is not in the download, so it has been updated a lot since the downloadable version from 2020. Maybe it could also be updated once everything is finished with the server update? But no rush.
Thanks for a great resource!
Are the iNaturalist IDs from resource 1177 gathered from Wikidata?