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Improving Mindat.orgMinID bulk creation?
27th Apr 2024 14:47 UTCJames Catmur
27th Apr 2024 15:28 UTCWayne Corwin
27th Apr 2024 17:34 UTCJames Catmur
27th Apr 2024 18:21 UTCKevin Conroy Manager
James Catmur ✉️
it would take years to photograph them allStart today, we can wait!
A MinID is meant to belong to one specimen, not a group of specimens. To learn more:
27th Apr 2024 21:49 UTCJames Catmur
27th Apr 2024 21:45 UTCJeff Weissman Expert
27th Apr 2024 21:48 UTCJames Catmur
27th Apr 2024 21:59 UTCJeff Weissman Expert
27th Apr 2024 22:24 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
27th Apr 2024 23:18 UTCJcrockett
Supposedly there is a web API you can use, hopefully someone who knows more about that will come in and let you know how to use it.
27th Apr 2024 22:24 UTCJosé Zendrera 🌟 Manager
Mindat does not benefit at all giving minIDs to specimens outside of its database, why should do it?
27th Apr 2024 22:37 UTCJcrockett
It's literally a stated goal of the MinID system. I hope Jolyon can chime in but I don't think it was supposed to be completely married to Mindat entries.
27th Apr 2024 22:59 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
27th Apr 2024 23:16 UTCJcrockett
28th Apr 2024 09:05 UTCJames Catmur
My database of localities is sometimes more accurate than MinDat.
What is being suggested is that I photograph every specimen, correct MinDat where there are errors, and get a MinID for each specimen (or live with the locality errors in MinDat). I am happy to do that for a few specimens but not for the whole collection (disability means the keyboard work can be done but photographing is hard). I will keep my ID system as every specimen has an ID/label/etc and I curate localities as we discover more about them.
28th Apr 2024 10:00 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
You can create your own catalogue on mindat.
You then enter in the details of any specimen - including your catalogue no., locality, species, size and any other info. A minID is then generated. You can then add a photo at a later date.
The details will just sit in your catalogue.
Mineral dealers who pay to advertise on mindat can automate the minIDs.
Of course if you are selling a specimen it generally requires a photo so dealers will generally add them.
I guess also you may already have a number of specimens that already have a minID where you have purchased or traded specimens from dealers / collectors in the last 10 years.
No doubt Jolyon will add a comment at some point
28th Apr 2024 10:14 UTCJames Catmur
What I want to do is a bulk upload, not one by one, as all the information needed is in the database. When I do such uploads with other systems I do have to map my field names to the system's field names.
A few of my specimens may already have a dealer MinID, but I only find them by luck when I spot the specimen!
28th Apr 2024 12:07 UTCJames Catmur
28th Apr 2024 21:38 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
James Catmur ✉️
the hard bit will be the locality mapping as it will throw up all the diferences Exactly, as I said before. Not many collectors have their specimen locations exactly matching Mindat, so if you did a bulk upload you would get a huge stack of “new” locations that would need fixing manually. An effective bulk loader would have to check each entry and put up a list of likely matches.
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