Sending to iRecord

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