Forgive me if this has come up before. In my experience, curators do not, by default, set a link to GBIF when adding new taxa. I usually ask that they do this explicitly, providing the relevant URL, but it seems as though most don’t know how to do it, or even why you would. Often, they simply ignore…

[image] vandalsen: Is there a page somewhere on iNaturalist that includes instructions for doing this task Nope (as far as I’m aware), I’ve never seen it documented

I think you need to be a little more specific in what you are expecting. The “ Create a New Taxon ” page does not have a field for inserting a link specifically to GBIF. Once that page has been submitted and the name created in iNaturalist’s taxon database it is possible to create a link to the taxono…

I’m not aware of it being documented either. @mrtnlowr they’re referring to Taxon Schemes, which you can find on the Taxonomy tab: [image] e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/75858/schemes I’m not actually sure what function they serve other than adding a layer for GBIF occurrences to the tax…

Hi Cassi, Thanks for the correction. I’ve now updated my post to reflect your comment. Having just tried to use that page and entering what I thought might be the correct entries to each field I got a 404 response delivered by the search mole. So what do the second and third fields require as inpu…

I agree that this process needs to be better documented (and I really think it’s ripe for a UI improvement). Here’s what I do: Open an iNat taxon page and navigate to the Taxonomy tab, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1361011-Gelasine-uruguaiensis#taxonomy-tab . If the count next to Taxon Sc…

Thanks for posting about this! I’m one of those curators who did not know about linking to GBIF so this is a valuable education. Now that I know, is there a way to find all the taxa I’ve ever created so I can go back and link them?

When I click “Add to a Scheme”, the taxon name field preloads with a number. It appears to be the unique identifier for the active scientific name. (i.e., if you go back to the taxon and click “edit” next to the scientific name, the same number appears in the URL) I had not really been paying atten…

You can go to https://inaturalist.org/flags , change resolved to “Yes” and enter your own user ID to scroll through your back catalog of resolved flags if you want to go through and backfill them. I’m not sure where, if anywhere, the new taxa creations are exposed, though.

Thank you, @rupertclayton . I think I’ll use this in future!

I’m sure that’s not necessary, @zygy ! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Nope (as far as I’m aware), I’ve never seen it documented

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Instructions for linking taxon schemes

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