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The Symbiota Virtual Flora/Fauna project is an open source software project, with central goal of developing on-line tools that aid in the generation, exploration and management of biodiversity data (collection specimens, observations, images, checklist, keys, etc.). See also: http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1114 and http://symbiota.org/
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Investigate if symbiota supports ingestion via FTP #70

Open Tian-Tan opened 2 months ago

Tian-Tan commented 2 months ago

There is no FTP importing function on symbiota. Some investigation into the documentation and code is needed to determine if FTP ingestion exists (albeit it might be named differently), or if it does not exist at all.

Tian-Tan commented 2 months ago

From the Symbiota docs or code it does not look like there are any sort of FTP ingestion option. If the "FTP ingestion" works by FTPing images to a location on the server, we might need to make some functions to convert those images into a dwca format, or we would have to design a new type of ingestion system into Symbiota. Currently, I would put this on hold for now because talking with the symbiota team might give us some insight into this.