<b>If you use iNaturalist and want your records to be passed to iRecord for verification and use in the UK then, you can help the recording scheme verifiers by following the guidelines provided below whenever possible:</b>

1.    Choose an open licence for your records in iNaturalist: CC0 or CC BY will enable your records to be used as widely as possible and are the preferred choice; CC BY-NC (non-commercial) can prevent records being used by some schemes and records centres. Other licence choices (such as SA and ND) are difficult to interpret for individual records, and cannot be used in iRecord or the NBN Atlas (nor on GBIF).

2.    If adding records to the iNaturalistUK website, ensure that you zoom in to the map when setting the location, so that the records have an accuracy measure of 100 metres or less. This will ensure that a reasonably accurate grid reference can be assigned to them on import to iRecord.

3.    Avoid obscuring locations unless absolutely necessary, as this can prevent them being linked to grid references of suitable precision for recording scheme use

4.    Provide your real name if possible; this can be added as the “Display name” in your iNaturalist profile, and will then be used as the recorder name on iRecord.

5.    Now that the record import is in place in iRecord to allow iNaturalist data to be imported, it is helpful if you can avoid adding the same record to both iNaturalistUK and iRecord, to avoid duplication of both records and of verifiers’ time.

Many thanks.
Steve J. McWilliam