Identifying authors of iNaturalist observations within GBIF download data

An additional wrinkle is that identifiedBy in the DwC download for iNaturalist records is the first identifier, and that may not be what you’re after. I had this problem when looking at “following” in iNaturalist - where identifier N agrees with identifier N-1 or some other earlier identifier, because N thinks the earlier identifier should know the correct ID. See this post.

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