Topic: Date inaccuracies in records
There are still many thousands of records on the NBN atlas with dates that have been migrated incorrectly from the old Gateway. The thread started by Jim here https://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=6803 explains about the records with years and year ranges being incorrectly given precise dates of 01/01/XXXX. I think some of these have been corrected, but there are still many incorrect dates, presumably relating to day ranges, and month ranges.
See example here, which was a day range record for 01/01/2010-31/12/2010 that has been allocated to the 1st January:
https://records.nbnatlas.org/occurrence … d607c84587
A quick examination of any summer species (e.g. Orange-tip) will show similarly that there are still many thousands of January records - https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NH … 86#records
If people are to use and rely on these data for important decision making purposes or for scientific investigation these issues need to be sorted ASAP.
MARK
SWSEIC (formerly DGERC)