This was one of the earlier imports to the system. The data was provided to Wild Me this way inside files like dogsWithID.xlsx, which contained ~330 rows, each to an individual and containing anywhere from a couple up to thirty or so images from various sightings. This can be useful especially when establishing a matching baseline. I believe other imports were blended by Jason H from sparse metadata as well.
I’m sorry but I don’t understand (also I don’t have authorization to access the link you sent re: import review page). Shouldn’t different pics from different times always be treated as separate encounters? How could multiple images from different times all be the same encounter?
If you log into the platform elsewhere and then visit that link you will have access.
Yes, encounters should have a sense of date and time if at all possible. This data was provided to us without that however. It’s source is the cropped images by individual ID folders in Dropbox, which we were asked to import.
It’s still useful for photo ID on these animals since it provides many examples that have a known ID, but there is no metadata beyond that and no way to know which images belong in different encounters or together.