Authentication and authorization

Updated: 28-6-2023
Note

The AI nature identification service is a paid annual subscription service for organisations. Tokens are provided to subscribers. If you want to subscribe please contact us via https://ainature.eu/contact/.

Authentication

Authentication is done using a username and password combination with the HTTP Basic Authentication protocol. A single combination of username and password will be provided to each (data) partner. Using this combination verifies that access to the token endpoint should be granted.

Authorization

Authorization is done via a token. Tokens will be provided to partners. A token defines two parameters:

  • The namespace in which results will be returned.
  • Which specific data (source) is used to return fine-tuned results.
Info

Multiple tokens can be provided to data partners.

Examples

  • One token provided to NBIC Norway Artsdatabanken will return results using the NBIC namespace, and will use a model fine-tuned on Norwegian data.

  • A second token provided to Arter DK will return results using the DK_ART namespace and use a model fine-tuned on the shared dataset.

A combination of username, password and token is used with the token endpoint. An example of such a call can be found here.