Exporting individual-based data

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Hey @Anastasia ,
I have another question for my analysis of the firesalamander project in the Amphibian and Reptile Wildbook.
I want to export some individual-based data, to be precise the group belongings (so female, male, sub-adult) of our animals.

The problem is that I can’t just use the encounter based search results because for many individuals group belongings are not the same for all encounters (e.g. if we encountered an individual twice and were not sure whether it was a female or male at the first sighting and decided for something that later on turned out to be wrong so we decided for something different at the second encounter and the merged individual than kept the second group belonging).
For all individuals with one encounter I can just use the group belonging of the encounter, but there are over 900 individuals with multiple encounters for which I would need to manually check the group belonging they are assigned to now.

As far as I know there is no way to export general information from the individual search, right? I was thinking about the Socprog export but this is also encounter based. And although I am given the information there which are first and which are resights, I cannot conclude the group belonging of the individual. However, I see the information I need in the search results though (see picture). Can I somehow export this exact table? That would be great.

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Thanks for your help and best regards

Sean

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Just to make sure I understand correctly, you want an individual export that sorts individuals by age and sex, but without each encounter for an individual included in the spreadsheet?

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Hi @Anastasia,

exactly. Something like: Individual ID, group belonging (female, male, etc.), number encounters

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Hi @Sean.Grond

Is sorting by sex, individual ID, and encounter numbers the primary info you want to export? If there are additional specific metadata you want to sort by, can you let us know? That will help us with implementing an updated individual export type.

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Hi Anastasia,

exactly, this is the information I need from an individual based data export.
One additional thing that could come in handy is lifestage, being able to distinuguish post-metamorphs from adults based on the metadata would make it easier for me to distinguish unknown adult individuals (which are neither male or female, because we weren’t able to reliably identify it) from sub-adults (which also are considered to be unknown in the ARW as well, but are not grown-up adults yet).

Kind regards

Sean

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Thanks, @Sean.Grond!

@tanyastere for visibility