[API-users] DWC with "extra" images

Matthew Blissett mblissett at gbif.org
Mon May 2 15:34:13 UTC 2022


Hi Matthew,

(I think you probably mean a files like media.txt or multimedia.txt)

In general, extra records in the extension files (media etc) are 
ignored.  We don't have any plans to change this.

Cheers,

Matt

On 15/04/2022 17:36, Matthew Cruz wrote:
> What would happen in GBIF when processing a published DWC file if the 
> metadata.txt file has an ID corresponding to an image, but that ID is 
> not found in the occurrence.txt file?
>
> Does the image get ignored or published despite there being no 
> corresponding metadata?
>
> What else can you tell me about this process?
>
> Thank you
>
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