I’ve read https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/preserved-specimens-labelled-as-dead/ My problem is about specimens (mostly animals) preserved as jewellery or decorative item etc., e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/188124135 My idea would be to annotate them as both dead (which is obviously …

I’ve seen people mark museum specimens as captive if location and date of collection aren’t included in the observation. That is what I’d do for those. For an observation of a mount or a study skin that has the same date and location on the observation as the tag/label/etc, I think that would give …

Your scorpion example is dead, and captive (in Manchester ;~)

The fact that it is in Manchester is special. I’m just walking the unknown/arachnid project of jpb which is full of resin-preserved scorpions, usually with no place (neither the place where they were caught nor where the jewellery was located). Until I see other opinions, I’ll continue to mark them …

[image] giannamaria: I’ve seen people mark museum specimens as captive if location and date of collection aren’t included in the observation. That is what I’d do for those. But there are separate DQA entries for this situation: Location is accurate = No. Date is accurate = No.

Most museum or herbarium specimens have a collection date and locality. The specimens are organisms that were observed at that specific time and place. They were (in most cases) wild animals or plants that were collected, preserved, transported to a museum and later photographed. Winding up on the…

Museum specimens generally shouldn’t be uploaded as observations to iNaturalist unless done so by the original collector. Staff have previously expressed that they don’t want iNat used to get collection info into GBIF as this isn’t the primary purpose of iNat (and collections have better solutions a…

[image] cthawley: The best practice is generally to mark as “captive” if the location of the observation is in the collection itself - the organism was taken captive and moved to the location because of a human’s intention (not the organism’s own movement or a natural process). This is foolis…

I think the location is close enough to be considered the wild one (GPS precision is just 30 m anyway). On the other hand, if you had found the animal in your shed without a camera 10 km away from home, taken it home and took the picture there, it would be either captive or you had to enter the shed…

That’s what I meant, I wasn’t clear.

[image] cthawley: the organism was taken captive and moved Captured and captive don’t mean the same thing. In the case of a collected specimen, the observation occurred at the place and time at which the collection was made. The photograph might be taken later at a place far removed from th…

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