Observers provide data to iNat. Identifiers provide both metadata and peer review for the data. We identifiers are “volunteer curators” at iNat. Shall we develop consensus best practices for handling certain types of data that we curate? I invite discussion here. @tiwane perhaps you could move a few…

I don’t want to see any more data quality issues (such as multiple species in one observation) added to ‘Casual’. I don’t always ID Casual, but when I do, I don’t want it to be difficult. It’s already bad enough that I have to specifically exclude other problems such as No Photo. What I would sugge…

[image] spiphany: , the type of observation that is creating problems is a bit different – not multiple species in one photo I have seen such observations with a single photo, multiple species, marked “life” in the US and the obs told it couldn’t be IDd. Another variation on a theme.

When you’re IDing in casual, what are you looking at? Plants? Unknowns? Trying to wrap my head around solutions.

[image] tiwane: it’s not realistic to expect iNat users to to abide by an “only identify plants in Africa to the family level or finer” norm. Thank you.

That can be an appropriate response, but in cases like this the DQA votes are more clear cut, most likely “no evidence.” In the case of multiple pictures with different organisms there is no simple DQA solution, however, so people try different approaches.

[image] peakaytea: When you’re IDing in casual, what are you looking at? Plants? Unknowns? Trying to wrap my head around solutions. For me, plants such as landscaping trees and shrubs in urban areas, and garden plants.

On the website, you’d separate those using the cultivated filter to search. On the Android, no option yet. Not sure about the iPhone version.

If you just care about plants, and not whether they are cultivated or wild, you want “needs id” OR “captive” AND “has photos”. If you only choose “captive”, you can’t choose “Needs ID” and you also have to choose “Has Photos” if you don’t want to be bothered by blank observations. I guess it could …

I tried to construct a combination of settings that would give both “needs ID” and “captive” (and of course, must have photos), using the iNaturalist.org site. If you choose “Captive”, Needs ID is unselected. I would have to study the UI to try to ascertain what checkboxes mean an OR clause is adde…

What do you mean by “needs ID”? Everything in casual “needs ID” because it will never be at RG. That’s why the button is unchecked. What are you trying to add to your search or eliminate from your search with that button? Maybe there’s another solution.

Identifiers as Volunteer Curators, and Obs with Probs

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