Re: [inaturalist] Access to iNaturalist's interaction data for EOL's Global Biotic Interaction project

[Ken-ichi]

Hey Jorrit,

All observations using the "eating" observation field:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations?field:eating=

Observations of organisms using coast live oak as a host near Las
Trampas Regional Wilderness:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations?swlat=37.778870217489334&swlng=-122.10211298913578&nelat=37.846678027209954&nelng=-121.99224970788578&field:host=47850

The main problems here are that observation field data are not yet
included in machine-readable responses (JSON, CSV) and taxonomic
observation fields do not include descendant taxa, e.g.
field:host=47850 will only search for observations with a field set to
coast live oak, and will not include any subspecies of coast live oak,
so there's no real way at present to ask questions like "what
organisms does oak host on the east coast?"

If you feel like hacking on this stuff, everything is open source.
Relevant code at

https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/blob/master/app/controllers/observations_controller.rb#L2024
https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/blob/master/app/models/observation.rb#L446

Also, I'm in Oakland too, so if you want to get together and talk
about this just email me off-list.

-ken-ichi

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Jorrit Poelen <jhpo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey y'all,
>
> I am working on a project funded by EOL that is focussed on making biotic
> interaction datasets as easily accessible as species information on sites
> like iNaturalist, EOL.org and eBird. This would help answer questions like:
> Which mammals are eaten by the Great White Shark near the San Francisco Bay
> Area? Or, which parasites do Oak trees host on the US east coast?
>
> We already have a bunch of datasets that we are working with (for overview
> see our simplistic proof-of-concept web app at
> http://eol-globi-web.herokuapp.com/data_contributors) but . . . we don't
> have any citizen science data yet! So here's my question - what would it
> take for the EOL GloBI project to get access to the wealth of observations
> on iNaturalist that contain taxonomic observation fields like "Eating",
> "Flower species", "Host", or "Perching on".? We hope that the exchange of
> interaction data will lead to better ways of doing so. . .
>
> Curious to hear your thoughts!
>
> -jorrit
> Oakland, CA
> http://eol.org/users/56974
>
>
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[Jorrit Poelen]

hey ken-ichi,

Thanks for your reply . . . and yes lets get together, I'll send you a message in a minute.

-jorrit