Announcing the Universal Metadata Tool Beta

I’m getting the corrupt file popup in Firefox 132.0.2 on Windows 11

Edit:: Got it working on Edge and it’s awesome! (With 65,546 observations in my “to annotate” queue.)

It’s now possible to specify, for a Taxon ID action, whether you want it to be added as Disagreeing or not. If you do not select this box, it will behave as it does now (if you add any ID from a different taxon, it’s a disagreement; if it’s a lower or higher level taxon consistent with the current community ID it is supportive).

If you enable the box, it will now add the ID as a disagreement if it’s a higher level taxon consistent with the current community ID.

Thank your for this great tool. :pray: It has made annotations so much easier for me. It’s great for easily distinguishable things like life stages of Lepidoptera. I have been cranking away on those in my home state with it, making much better progress than without it.

I wish it was a little bit faster while processing (also seems to stop/slow down when tab is in the background). But I guess it’s a limitation of the API?

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Yes, the API has a rate limit so if you use the bulk action tool there are built-in cool-off timers. If those weren’t there it would attempt and fail a bunch of actions.

The fact that the operations stop when the tab is in the background is I believe a browser issue, not an API issue. I don’t know if it’s possible for me to change that setting. Suffice it to say that the extension is making its requests as fast as I know how to make that happen. Glad you’re getting good use out of it!

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What constitutes a “valid taxon for all Add Taxon ID actions”?
‘Cumulopuntia boliviana boliviana’ fails.