How to create an umbrella __?

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Have seen several allusions to umbrella folder or project. I’m a nuts and bolts person. How is such an entity created? Want to use for a bioblitz at several MN state parks. Is there a best practices somewhere for bioblitzes? Lots of advice, but is there a consensus? This is for flora exclusively and will involve public and professional input. Thank you.

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start by reading https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000176472-understanding-projects-on-inaturalist.

if you state parks are not already defined as places in the iNaturalist system, you may also want to read:

there are also discussions in the forum about other ways to create places and manage projects. so you could search the forum if you have specific questions after you’ve read the pages above. if you can’t find what you’re looking for, come back with your specific questions, and we can attempt to answer them.

start by reading https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000194866-bioblitz-guide. you can also search the forum for more discussions about bioblitzes.

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I disagree. This might work in the short term, but in the longer term each place might want to make it’s own decisions wrt management practices, journal posts, etc. the other thing is… it makes it much easier for a casual visitor to see which park they might want to visit if they can click on each one and also see the umbrella map showing the location of each.

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Thank you pisum, Anlity and stockslager. Need to read all the pointers pisum provided before I’ll know enough to create a bioblitz (for three locations, none of which are currently registered in iNat). Got no idea what an umbrella map is/means. I understand file and nested/hierarchical file structures in unix, just don’t get what folks are talking about in this forum.

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https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2025-umbrella

This is the umbrella project. With many local projects in it - for example

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2025-cape-town

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A collection project automatically collates individual observations that fulfil its filters/requirements. An umbrella project is a special kind of collection project that instead collects other projects.

So say you had a project for a BioBlitz that ran on one weekend of a year, and you then set up a similar project for each time the BioBlitz ran in each new year. You could then set up an umbrella project to show those individual projects on the same page to allow easy comparison etc

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