It definitely is a rather easy group to start with and can be useful for identification and research. That’s why I am working on it right now.
I can highly recommend the Universal Metadata Tool for annotating. Like 90% of all observations in Lepidoptera are quite obvious and can be easily done in bulk. The ones that are not clear, can then be quickly annotated with the shortcut buttons.
For anyone interested, here is my configuration for annotating Lepidoptera. Just save it in a new textfile as a .json and import it into the tool
JSON config
{
"configurationSets": [
{
"name": "Lepidoptera",
"buttons": [
{
"id": "1730368570423",
"name": "Adult",
"shortcut": {
"key": "A",
"ctrlKey": false,
"shiftKey": false,
"altKey": true
},
"actions": [
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "1",
"annotationValue": "2"
},
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "22",
"annotationValue": "24"
}
],
"buttonHidden": false,
"configurationDisabled": false
},
{
"id": "1730368598151",
"name": "Larva",
"shortcut": {
"key": "L",
"ctrlKey": false,
"shiftKey": false,
"altKey": true
},
"actions": [
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "1",
"annotationValue": "6"
},
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "22",
"annotationValue": "24"
}
],
"buttonHidden": false,
"configurationDisabled": false
},
{
"id": "1733088202208",
"name": "Male",
"shortcut": {
"key": "",
"ctrlKey": false,
"shiftKey": false,
"altKey": false
},
"actions": [
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "9",
"annotationValue": "11"
}
],
"buttonHidden": false,
"configurationDisabled": false
},
{
"id": "1733088218451",
"name": "Female",
"shortcut": {
"key": "F",
"ctrlKey": true,
"shiftKey": false,
"altKey": false
},
"actions": [
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "9",
"annotationValue": "10"
}
],
"buttonHidden": false,
"configurationDisabled": false
},
{
"id": "1733304466859",
"name": "Construction",
"shortcut": {
"key": "C",
"ctrlKey": true,
"shiftKey": false,
"altKey": false
},
"actions": [
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "22",
"annotationValue": "35"
},
{
"type": "reviewed",
"reviewed": "mark"
}
],
"buttonHidden": false,
"configurationDisabled": false
},
{
"id": "1733816304718",
"name": "Leafmine",
"shortcut": {
"key": "",
"ctrlKey": false,
"shiftKey": false,
"altKey": false
},
"actions": [
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "22",
"annotationValue": "32"
},
{
"type": "reviewed",
"reviewed": "mark"
}
],
"buttonHidden": false,
"configurationDisabled": false
},
{
"id": "1743761773942",
"name": "Pupa",
"shortcut": {
"key": "",
"ctrlKey": false,
"shiftKey": false,
"altKey": false
},
"actions": [
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "1",
"annotationValue": "4"
},
{
"type": "annotation",
"annotationField": "22",
"annotationValue": "24"
}
],
"buttonHidden": false,
"configurationDisabled": false
}
],
"observationFieldMap": {},
"customOrder": [
"1730368570423",
"1730368598151",
"1733088202208",
"1733088218451",
"1733304466859",
"1733816304718",
"1743761773942"
],
"sortMethod": "custom"
}
],
"currentSetName": "Lepidoptera",
"customLists": []
}