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

[image] DianaStuder: Those obs will all be Captive, Not Wild as long as the location and date reflect the original collection event, they will be wild

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 …

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.

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…

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.

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?

Staff have previously said that this isn’t what iNat is really for, it’s for a user’s own observations. See [image] Is this use of iNaturalist Content a breach of the commercial purpose terms? iNat’s not meant to be a data repository, it’s a community that generates data. Will Valerie be an acti…

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