YEA Place Catalog: Batch Import and AI Enrichment Infrastructure

@techreport{hamilton2026yea, author = {Hamilton, Michael P., Ph.D.}, title = {YEA Place Catalog: Batch Import and AI Enrichment Infrastructure}, institution = {Canemah Nature Laboratory}, year = {2026}, number = {CNL-TN-2026-032}, month = {march}, url = {https://canemah.org/archive/document.php?id=CNL-TN-2026-032}, abstract = {The Your Ecological Address (YEA) platform at `yea.earth` maintains a curated catalog of ecologically significant places worldwide — biological field stations, nature reserves, bird observatories, wildlife refuges, and similar sites. As of March 2026, the catalog contains 1,142 published places across six continents, affiliated with 23 organizations. This note documents the batch infrastructure that builds and enriches this catalog: the import pipeline that ingests structured data from research network registries, and the AI enrichment pipeline that produces research-grade narrative descriptions for each place using a tiered model architecture. Together these scripts run on a two-machine LAN configuration (Data for computation, Galatea for production MySQL) and have processed the entire catalog at near-zero marginal cost.} }