Pollinator Garden Census Capture Thoughts

[August144]

Hi!

I was thinking about how the pollinator garden capture would work, and figured I'd throw my thoughts here to maybe be helpful / see what other people are thinking. LMK! :)

Where - iNaturalist

I think this census would be the perfect use for iNaturalist Projects.

• Example: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/national-geographic-great-nature-project

Photos can be uploaded via their API for free and then set to a "needs ID" status, where the community can ID the pollinators that come through.

Link to Above

How - Extension Addition

What - Another Button

Another extension button, labeled "Pollinator Capture," that captures the stream window and POSTs it to an endpoint.

How - Cloud / Non-Cloud API Midpoint between extension and iNaturalist

Front-end

• Capture completed using something with something like this library: http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/
  • This could be outside the possibility of Twitch extensions, admittedly not familiar with them 😅
• Done specifically on the Twitch player window to prevent anyone from capturing anything besides that.
• Button should include a link to the iNaturalist project page.

Back-end

• Could be created quickly using AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda.
  • Lambda dumps the photo to iNaturalist, with a limit of 1 photo per 1 second.
    Notes on the page could include the user who submitted and a link to the VOD with a timestamp.
  • Also, an entry should be made into a text DB with a user ID and a timestamp to prevent duplicate images and single-user spam.
    • An additional table could be added to blacklist users who are constantly submitting unhelpful photos.
• This could also be done off-cloud if that's how most operations are hosted for Alveus, the POST would just need to be able to poke through to local servers, which can be iffy.

Why

I think having users be able to submit pictures directly through the extension rather than via the iNaturalist page itself means more frequent submissions and less barrier to entry. The chatters who are dedicated enough to create a login to iNaturalist can help with ID'ing the pollinators.

Thoughts?

Thanks y'all,
August

[MattIPv4]

@changesbyjames FYI 👀

[MattIPv4]

Fwiw, we will have a dedicated site where folks can submit captures (see https://github.com/alveusgg/census), and will then have a process in place for deduplicating and IDing them on our end first before we think about exporting them to a third-party like iNaturalist (both because we don't want to overwhelm INaturalist with dupes + bad captures, but also because we need to think about what we can export to them without revealing Alveus' location publicly).

[August144]

Oh neat! Okay yeah, I saw the census repo, but I should've read a little deeper to see what it was all about hahah

Ahh I didn't think about location privacy. So many factors 😵‍💫

My front-end skills are pretty bad, I call em "functional" at best, so I can't help out there as much as I'd like to, but if y'all need help along the way with back-end stuffs or architecting questions lmk, I'd love to help :)