How do you set up a project on international material inherited from a deceased friend?
can you elaborate? if you’ve inherited a project, then it should already be set up. what else is there to do?
The material has been inherited, there is no project yet, I’ll have to set one up
iNat is intended for your obs of what you saw. Not for museum collections. A few obs is OK.
Those obs will all be Captive, Not Wild
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/museum-herbarium-collection-digitisation-on-inaturalist-yes-or-no/5374/4
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as long as the location and date reflect the original collection event, they will be wild
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If the collection specimens all have the name of the collector, the location and date collected, then you’ve got two options I can think of. If the collection is sizable, then I would look around on GBIF to see if there is a museum or university collection that you can donate it to, this will have the added advantage that they will be better suited to caring for the specimens long term. If the collection is not large then you could probably upload it here as long as you include the collector’s name and the date/location collected.
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A little more elaboration will help us: Collection of insects? mammals? plants?
If you retain the collection and intend to upload records on iNat, good specimen photos are very important, and appropriate attributions (collector, specific locality, collection date, etc.) are equally important.
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Insects, very small collections, some specimens, some images.
The museum route is in hand but typically that would occur after I become one of those deceased friends, then add another 25 years for species occurrences to be dealt with and end up on GBIF depending on which country you are in.
In the meantime I need reference collections to study.
I may have the iNaturalist solution, Traditional projects, anything one uploads can be assigned to one of these whereas Collections projects are merely filters.
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Agreed with others - iNat really isn’t for posting someone else’s observations in anything other than a few records. Systematic posting of someone else’s observations shouldn’t be done. It sounds like some type of natural history collection would be a better home for this data/the specimens.
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If they are valid records (with the correct location and date), I don’t see any harm in posting them. And of course, @rainieria has inherited them. Unless there’s something I’m missing?
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Staff have previously said that this isn’t what iNat is really for, it’s for a user’s own observations. See
Or https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/indirect-observations-submitting-observations-made-by-general-public/8787/10
for a longer comment or other threads on the forum.
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Inheriting a specimen is not the same as encountering an organism.
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