Platform(s): all URLs: n/a Description of need: A number of changes have been introduced in the past year or so in an attempt to resolve complexities and issues surrounding infraspecies / subspecies in relation to the data quality assessment, observation taxon behavior, and when and how things be…

[image] regnierda: (REMOVE) Has ID supported by two or more [image] regnierda: (REMOVE) Community Taxon matches Observation Taxon I like the idea behind your proposal but have a fundamental disagreement with these two among others… Removing these from the RG qualification will lead to…

this doesn’t make sense. your proposal adds a lot of complexity without addressing the original issue(s). if / when they finally (correctly) fix the original issues, then your proposal would not be needed. so then what that tells me is they should just fix the original issues rather than spending ti…

[image] regnierda: The export taxon should be set to the lowest ranking taxon which both the observation taxon and the community taxon agree upon, but only once/while that agreement exists at a rank of (?) or below family Wait, what am I missing? How is this different from the community taxon…

[image] dgwdoesthings: Removing these from the RG qualification will lead to thousands of incorrect GBIF records that create more “work” with updating when they inevitably get corrected eventually. I suggested removing these criterion from the Research Grade Qualification because they become …

[image] regnierda: I think the idea of just exporting the CID instead is a fair one. However, a separate export taxon entity respects the Community ID Opt-Out choice and continues to provide the observer with a measure of control of how their data gets contributed to GBIF. if someone’s opted …

[image] pisum: if you’re saying that you want such observations to be sent to GBIF, then that’s a whole new thing. Yeah, I guess you’re right. I kind of got excited with the idea and ran with some of the additional possibilities of it. I should have reined that in a little bit, haha. I agree…

Another idea is to just allow “research grade” and “needs ID” to have more than two options. Right now, each seem to be just “yes” or “no”, or maybe they are all combined into one field and that is the problem. Each could have three or more options/levels. Research grade: Casual No Higher Level …

Add New Export Taxon To Solve All (?) of the Problems With Research Grade

Feature Requests

anubian1471 January 20, 2026, 4:08pm 9

I think this suggestion, Make captive/cultivated not automatically “no ID needed” - Feature Requests - iNaturalist Community Forum, holds some weight here, and would help some underlying issues.

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Which ID of an observation is exported to GBIF? General	9	991	December 3, 2023
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Add New Export Taxon To Solve All (?) of the Problems With Research Grade

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