I noticed today for the first time that there is a new (or at least newly available in spiders) value for the “Evidence of Presence” annotation: Construction. I like it! This will be very useful in the future. However, in the past I’ve annotated many (probably well over a thousand) observations of …

[image] arachnologus: All these would be better as “Construction” but there’s no easy way for me to find them all now You can find observations identified by you and annotated with “track” using the following URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=arachnologus&place_id=a…

See https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627/677 and the relevant journal post it links to. It goes over Construction, Egg, and toher other new values for Evidence of Presence. [image] arachnologus: However, in the past I’ve annotated many (probably well over a thousand) observ…

@tiwane Thanks for clarification! That journal post makes it sound like I should also be using “construction” instead of “organism” for egg sacs that are only presumed to contain eggs? That adds another large class of past annotations that I’ll probably never have time to fine-tune!

[image] arachnologus: makes it sound like I should also be using “construction” instead of “organism” for egg sacs that are only presumed to contain eggs You can use both, or all three if you like. I think they all fit.

I suppose a mantis ootheca is a construction since often we dont know if it is empty, contains eggs or tiny nymphs and we dont want to be destructive and tear it to pieces. I do want to see a special project on mantis oothecae ( probably sic). I hope we shall now be able to use an annotation to auto…

Here’s an interesting case The egg collar is from a moon snail but the eggs are from a different snail. The observation is for the moon snail therefore it is annotated as construction but not as egg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169426549 Whereas this is both https://www.inaturalist.o…

[image] arachnologus: That journal post makes it sound like I should also be using “construction” instead of “organism” for egg sacs that are only presumed to contain eggs? That could also apply to cocoons which are only presumed to contain pupae; although in the case of this Polyphemus cocoo…

Sorry to revive this, but it is somewhat related. I’ve been trying to fix the Track annotations in South America with the new Construction and leafmine annotations and I’ve stumbled into some situations where I had to stop and think: “O.K is this still a Track? And if not, is it a Construction?” T…

Burrow and tunnel = Construction. IMO Claw and teeth marks, flattened plants - still need a suitable annotation ?

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sedgequeen March 26, 2024, 9:52pm 3

Oooooh! Construction? We’ve needed this annotation for a l-o-n-g time! Thanks for adding it.

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