Thanks for the bulk import link! A few notes:
- This import hasn’t been sent to identification yet. After you send it to detection, you still need to manually send it to identification once detection is complete. When you submit encounters manually through the report an encounter page, detection and identification run automatically. This is not the case for bulk imports and explains why you don’t see matches yet on your encounters.
- The location ID used on these encounters (FSWBD-TD) isn’t one that exists in ARW. As a result, you’re only going to see match candidates that you’ve uploaded with this ID. The list of available location IDs is in the location ID drop-down menu of the Report an encounter page. You can submit a Feature Request here on the forum whenever you want a new location added. I should point out that we generally avoid abbreviated location names like the one you’ve used because we want location names to be understandable and useable by other researchers on Wildbook. You may want to delete this import, correct the Location ID name in the spreadsheet (by using an existing one or requesting a new location and confirming it’s been added before retrying your import)
- You may also want to review our Bulk Import Cheat Sheet to avoid the most common issues people run into when setting up their spreadsheets.
- Regarding your question about why only one algorithm was run, identification submitted from the bulk import page will only run MiewID due to the large amount of data Hotspotter uses to run. It is still available when you manually start a new match from the encounter page, but you have to check the box first in order for it to run:
Additionally, notice how in the screenshot it says None selected next to Location ID? When nothing is selected here, it will look for match candidates against the global database, which will take a long time for your match to come back while it processes (especially if Hotspotter is selected).
I spot-checked a few of your encounters and “up” does look to be the correct viewpoint label. In ARW, “up” represents the photographer looking down at the salamander. Here’s an older forum post where the issue came up previously: Viewpoint for manual annotations - #6 by Anastasia