Annotation Sunday

[rudolphous]

Good luck with Annotation Sunday #4.

[eyekosaeder]

I know it isn’t Sunday, but I wanted to share anyways. I finally finished annotating life stage and sex for Platypezinae. :D
It’s a subfamily with relatively few observations, and my next project is annotating the whole family Platypezidae (which should be about 2000 annotations, so not too much work), but I assume a lot of those observations I will move into this subfamily as well.

It showed something really interesting. The males (blue) are usually more often observed than the females (orange), which show a huge spike in October.
I do not know whether this is accurate. The large number of misidentifications of males as Lindneromyia sp. and lack of identifiers for this Platypezidae will probably contribute to this, but it’s still interesting.

[rudolphous]

Thanks for sharing @eyekosaeder
The graphs looks very interesting indeed.

[kowhaitreehugger]

I have made some progress annotating coastal tree daisy (olearia solandri) in the flowers and fruits field. My end goal is to have enough annotations for both coastal tree daisy and tauhinu (ozothamnus leptophyllus) that observers and identifiers can use the graphs as an identification aid. But there is still a long way to go before the tauhinu graph is useful:

now to find something I don’t want to do, and annotate instead!

[DianaStuder]

Why is https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/404270-Olearia-solandri still Pending for CV with 808 obs ?

[kowhaitreehugger]

it seems to come up (as a suggestion) on observations in nz, maybe it hasn’t been added for locations outside it’s usual range?
on the page I access it says ‘included’

[DianaStuder]

It does show as Included for me now. Glitch resolved.

[rudolphous]

Another Annotation Sunday today, I try to add life stages to:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch&verifiable=true&taxon_id=47157&without_term_id=1

180 pages to go, probably too much to finish it today.

[rudolphous]

Above is complete! All butterflies in the Netherlands and Iceland (which I did earlier) have now a life stage.

We passed also 4 million mark on the project European Insects with Life Stage Annotations which is a nice mile stone as well.

See you all in next edition.

[rudolphous]

Today (and maybe this week) I will try to add some gender and life stage annotations to Tipula:

The following is done (324 pages = ~9720 observations): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch&verifiable=true&taxon_id=60393&term_id=9&place_id=any

The following is not done (3484 pages = ~104520 observations):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch&verifiable=true&taxon_id=60393&without_term_id=9&place_id=any

9720 / (9720 + 104520) = 8,5%

[hedaja]

@rudolphous

For example, here are all European butterflies where a lifestage is missing (3,287,043 observations):

Seems like we are starting to make a small dent (down to 3.253.593) . I have been annotating life stages in my home state for a few weeks now and got them from 20k missing down to about half of that.

That only worked because of this tool
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/announcing-the-universal-metadata-tool-beta/53182/129

I know it can’t be use for everything but butterfly life stages are so easy to tell apart most times, that this makes things super quick

[anneclewis]

My winter iNat work is to annotate the nymph stage of Odonata.

I did not realize that the iNat personal profile page shows the number of the user’s annotations in addition to their observations and identifications. I am all for elevating annotations as my aquatic invert projects use the nymph and larval stages as a project requirement.

[Vireya]

The annotations count was only added earlier this year. It is handy info. I know I have done a lot more annotations since I could see how many I’d done.

[tiwane]

Just heads-up, you can catch a recording of today’s plant phenology webinar! It covers basics of plant phenology, how phenology data are being used, and how to annotate plant observations.

And a short follow-up blog post.

[rudolphous]

Nice webinar and well explained. I watched it with joy. Even how to do speedy annotations is presented at the end. I’m currently busy with annotations for insects but can’t resist to do also some plant ones soon after this inspirational webinar.

[mo0nsgreenthumb]

I annotate as I go. So when I identify I also annotate. I do have an android which makes it easy to do so. But when I’m on the computer it’s even better because I can add more detailed annotations like associated plant if I’m ID’ing insects.

[mo0nsgreenthumb]

That webinar was excellent!!