Since iNat records an encounter with an organism, observations with juveniles and adults in the same photo can be duplicated, each with a different life stage annotation. I did that for this Large Milkweed Bug observation:
When identifying I often filter by sex or life stage. It helps that with hoverflies in Europe an increasingly good proportion of observations have these annotations. I find it easier to only think about the criteria for identifying one type of thing at a time. I would like it if it were easier to filter by annotations on the explore page, as well as the identify page.
I created a website that adds features that are present in the iNaturalist API but not currently present in the iNaturalist website Explore page. I added a few features related to annotations.
Ability to select multiple annotation types and values using the observations Filters. In this example I want all observations in San Francisco in 2024 with annotations ‘Fruits or Seeds’, ‘Flower Buds’, ‘Breaking Leaf Buds’, or ‘Green Leaves’
I also added a Media view that shows all the photos and audio for each observation. The annotations are shown on the first photo/audio for each observation.
There is no notification for annotations either as observer or if someone disagrees. I always make a comment when I disagree with previous annotation and hope the original annotater reads their comments.
Are you referring to annotations or observation fields?
The first part of your question sounds like it is about annotations (it is not possible to disagree with values entered in observation fields); the second part sounds like it is about observation fields (there are a limited number of annotations that should be clearly distinct).
You do not get notifications if people disagree with an annotation. It is not possible for anyone except the annotator or observer to correct annotations, so some people may @ mention you if you have entered an incorrect value. It is often important to @ mention the annotator rather than just commenting on the observation, since in many cases the annotator may not have interacted with the observation otherwise and thus will not be subscribed to get notifications for it.
I believe you should get notifications if someone changes the value of an observation field you have added.
What do you think might be a good way to start with this? I would be happy, for example, if someone messaged me and said, “We need to know all the blue tits that are at bird feeders,” and I could go and do that.
