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Cyprus Database of Alien Species at www.ris-ky.info/cydas
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Investigate possibility of auto-importing iNat photos with appropriate licences #3

Open sacrevert opened 4 years ago

sacrevert commented 4 years ago

It would also be nice to be able to automatically retrieve open licence photos from iNaturalist records (especially those actually from Cyprus) and automatically load them into the site media library (with the appropriate licence information in a separate field that could be automatically displayed with the image). Not sure whether this is possible or how much it would cost, but this would be a nice addition to the links we already have, and would be nice to have for any other “CyDAS”-like sites that Helen and David are suggesting to other UKOTs.

johnvanbreda commented 4 years ago

I think this is possible in a couple of days work though it might be technically difficult to copy the images into Drupal properly so we might need to consider just keeping the link. I'm slightly nervous of importing loads of content when we may only make use of some of the images though.

sacrevert commented 4 years ago

Thanks @johnvanbreda . Let's leave this one for @DavidRoy and Helen to comment on in the context of CyDAS-type initiatives more generally.

In order not to load unnecessary content, we could perhaps have a similar system to the current GBIF-link chooser, where thumbnails of relevant images from a pre-assigned polygon-based search on GBIF are presented, and user can select whatever limited number of import.

sacrevert commented 3 years ago

Note for myself: to be considered within Helen's new Darwin bid if won.