Sending to iRecordΒΆ

By way of specific example and to document the iRecord General survey, since some apps may wish to submit to this, below is a list of the name value pairs that it accepts.

Firstly there are the basic inputs and standard sample and occurrence values.

Name

Value

website_id

23

survey_id

42

appname

The app name that was configured.

appsecret

The app secret set for the app name.

email

Email of the user submitting the record.

usersecret

Secret of the user submitting the record.

sample:date

E.g. 04/12/2014

sample:entered_sref_system

E.g. OSGB

sample:entered_sref

E.g. SJ74350474

sample:comment

Any plain text.

occurrence:taxa_taxon_list_id

Required. The id of the species name within a species list.

Tip

You can grab taxa_taxon_list_id values from iRecord by examining HTML with a browser debugger. Go to http://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/enter-casual-record and start typing the name of the species you want to look up in the species input. The name will pop up in a list from which you can select it. If the name does not appear then it is not in the list for some reason, e.g. incorrect spelling. Having selected the species, inspect the HTML around the species input. You will find a hidden input like <input id="occurrence:taxa_taxon_list_id" class="hidden" type="hidden" value="123169" name="occurrence:taxa_taxon_list_id"> The value attribute holds the number you are looking for, 123169 in this case.

The sample attributes for the iRecord General survey are as follows.

Name

Value

smpAttr:127

Recorder Name.

smpAttr:209

EUNIS Habitat. A numeric value indicates a habitat as follows
1640 Coast
1642 Coastal dunes and sandy shores
1644 Coastal shingle
1646 Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the splash zone
1648 Inland water
1650 Standing waters
1652 Running waters
1654 Frequently inundated edge of inland water bodies including splash zone of waterfalls
1656 Bogs and fens
1658 Raised and blanket bogs
1660 Peatlands receiving water from surrounding landscape
1662 Peatlands receiving calcareous or eutrophic ground water
1664 Sedge and reedbeds, normally without free-standing water
1666 Inland saline and brackish marshes and reedbeds
1668 Grassland
1670 Dry grasslands including chalk grassland
1672 Fertile grasslands including hay meadows
1674 Wet grasslands such as grazing marshes, water meadows and flood meadows
1676 Woodland edges, clearings and tall herb stands
1678 Sparsely wooded grasslands
1680 Heathland, scrub, hedgerow
1682 Scrub
1684 Shrub heathland
1686 Riverine and fen scrubs
1688 Hedgerows
1690 Shrub plantations
1692 Woodland
1694 Broadleaved deciduous woodland
1696 Broadleaved evergreen woodland
1698 Coniferous woodland
1700 Mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland
1702 Lines of trees and small woodlands
1704 Unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats
1706 Caves
1708 Screes
1710 Inland cliffs, rock pavements and rocky outcrops
1712 Snow or ice dominated habitats
1714 Inland habitats with sparse or no vegetation
1716 Arable land, gardens or parks
1718 Arable and horticultural land
1720 Gardens and parks
1722 Industrial and urban
1724 Buildings of cities, towns and villages
1726 Quarries
1728 Roads and other constructed hard surfaces
1730 Artifically constructed waterways and associated structures
1732 Waste deposits
1734 Mixed habitats
1736 Estuaries
1738 Saline coastal lagoons
1740 Brackish coastal lagoons
1742 Snow patches
1744 Crops shaded by trees
1746 Intensively-farmed crops interspersed with strips of natural and/or semi-natural vegetation
1748 Bottom of the water body
1750 Mixed rock and sediment in the intertidal and splash zone
1752 Mixed rock & sediment of shallow subtidal zone with enough light for communities of seaweeds
1754 Mixed rock & sediment of subtidal zone at depths with little light and animal communities dominate
1756 Coastal caves
1758 Marine
1760 Rock and other hard surfaces in the intertidal and splash zone
1762 Sediment (shingles, gravels, sands and muds) in the intertidal and s plash zone including saltmarshes
1764 Rocky or cobbled seabed in the shallow subtidal zone with enough light for communities of seaweeds
1766 Rocky or cobbled seabed in the subtidal zone with little light and animal communities dominate
1768 Sediments (shingles, gravels, sands and muds) permanently covered with seawater
1770 Seabed in deep water beyond the continental shelf edge
1772 Water column of shallow or deep water
1774 Sea ice, icebergs and other ice-associated marine habitats

There are five other sample attributes which exist for historic reasons and are now largely redundant because the Indicia User Id is saved with each record. For completeness, these are

Name

Value

smpAttr:8

Email. Submit a value of [email] and the email address of the logged in user will be substituted.

smpAttr:21

CMS User ID. Submit a value of [userid] and the Drupal user id of the logged in user will be substituted.

smpAttr:22

CMS Username. Submit a value of [username] and the Drupal username of the logged in user will be substituted.

smpAttr:36

First Name. Submit a value of [firstname] and the first name of the logged in user will be substituted.

smpAttr:58

Last Name. Submit a value of [surname] and the last name of the logged in user will be substituted.

The occurrence attributes for the iRecord General survey are as follows.

Name

Value

occAttr:18

Identified By. A text value indicating who identified the specimen as this might be different from both the recorder and the person submitting the record.

occAttr:54

Certainty. A numeric value indicates the recorders certainty as follows
859 Certain
860 Likely
861 Uncertain

occAttr:93

Quantity. A test value indicating the number of specimens of the species that were observed.

occAttr:105

Sex. A numeric value indicates the sex of the specimen as follows
1946 Not recorded
1947 Male
1948 Female
3482 Mixed

occAttr:106

Stage. A numeric value indicates the life stage of the specimen as follows
1949 Not recorded
1950 Adult
1951 Pre-adult
1952 Other