[image] What to write on your profile For those of us who collect specimens, it allows us to put your name on a specimen determination label (ID label) associated with that observation As someone who identifies both museum specimens and iNat observations, I would not want someone else annotati…

@jdmore : I understand your concern and of course agree that direct exam of the specimen can be very different than looking at photos of the specimen. However, I’ve been told by the “higher-ups” at my museum that an ID provided via iNat can be written directly on the det. label without qualifiers …

I don’t think expecting identifiers to add this type of detail/qualifications to most/many identifications in comments is reasonable in most cases. Identifiers are not liable for the ways that other users/scientists choose to use the data as long as they made an ID in good faith. The process that ge…

Yeah, I understand this is complex and might be controversial. I won’t reply after this, I just don’t have time for a prolonged discussion via the web (would be thrilled to discuss in person at an iNat gathering or Zoom forum sometime!). I have quite a lot of experience with both identifying pho…

Sorry - one more thing - just to be clear that this isn’t some radical idea/process that I decided on myself (adding determinations from iNat identifiers) - this was relayed to me by senior staff at a nationally known collection/museum that frequently attend meetings of museum collections managers. …

[image] kschnei: If you are an expert and understand the limitations of photos and the need for examination of the specimen in certain cases, WHY would you firmly choose a species ID on a public website with your name associated with it, if you weren’t actually sure of the ID? That was not th…

(Background, for those without museum experience: The duplicate is a specimen made from the same plant or the same population and usually shared with somebody else.) I consider using ID’s from iNaturalist to ID a specimen to be similar to having somebody identify a duplicate. When I annotate my s…

Annotating museum specimens based on iNaturalist identifications

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jdmore January 26, 2023, 1:01am 10

BTW I separated this discussion into a new topic so as not to derail the original topic where it arose.

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Annotating museum specimens based on iNaturalist identifications

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