Enabling data roundtripping workflows between iNaturalist and TaxonWorks by adding external IDs

[gdower]

@mjy and I are working on developing some data round tripping workflows between iNaturalist and TaxonWorks using the Nasturtium iNaturalist API wrapper, but it doesn't seem like TaxonWorks IDs are exposed in the iNaturalist API? Would it please be possible to add external IDs to the taxa endpoint?

While investigating how to get TaxonWorks IDs from the iNaturalist API, we saw that the frontend adds Orthoptera Species File (OSF) links using this links endpoint. Unfortunately, it doesn't include the TaxonWorks ID and that also prevents the iNaturalist frontend from directly linking to OSF species pages via something like:

https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/[EXTERNAL_ID]/overview
https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/837761/overview