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data sources other than inat #6

Open dmcglinn opened 6 years ago

dmcglinn commented 6 years ago

We can add to this thread data sources that may be useful for adding into the app:

https://ebird.org/home
- does have an api and an R package: https://github.com/ropensci/rebird
https://www.ispotnature.org
- does not have an api that I can see most users in Europe
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org
- does not have an api
https://bugguide.net/
- webscraping tool: https://github.com/kueda/bugguide
- I'm not sure how much info this actually has on it
Data sources aggregated by the data retriever http://www.data-retriever.org/
- R package is https://github.com/ropensci/rdataretriever
- such as: https://retriever.readthedocs.io/en/latest/datasets_list.html#vertnet-amphibians

dmcglinn commented 6 years ago

Based on how easy inaturalist makes it to get their data (see #7) I think that adding in other citizen sci sources is really the primary argument for why our app would be useful. Unless we decide to go the route of investing a lot of tools for analyzing and correcting records for bias.