Data providers can give individuals access to the supplied (original) location information (locality, latitude-longitude coordinates and grid reference) of records of specific sensitive species in specific data resources.
The supplied location (locality, latitude-longitude coordinates and grid reference) is only be available in the downloads (both the simple and full Darwin core formats); the location information on the occurrence record page will remain the generalised values, regardless of the level of access.
As a data user, how do I request enhanced access to sensitive species records?
As a data provider, how do I grant individuals enhanced access to sensitive species data?
Enhanced access download columns
Simple format
Users with enhanced access to records of sensitive species have the following additional fields in the download csv file:
- locality – ungeneralised
- latitude – ungeneralised
- longitude – ungeneralised
- coordinate uncertainty in meters – ungeneralised
- grid reference – ungeneralised
For non-sensitive records or sensitive records that the user does not have access to these fields will be empty. In addition, the locality field of sensitive species records should always be blank.
Full and custom Darwin Core format
In the DwC download formats, all non-sensitive records and records of sensitive species that the users have enhanced access to have the following fields:
- locality – ungeneralised
- latitude – ungeneralised
- longitude – ungeneralised
- coordinate uncertainty in meters – ungeneralised
- grid reference – ungeneralised
These fields will be empty in sensitive records that the user does not have enhanced access to. In addition, the verbatimLocality field of sensitive species records will be blank, if the user does not have enhanced access.