I’m organizing my photos on a taxonomically ordered Lightroom catalog (maybe a foolish enterprise, but I’m trying to see where it takes me). That is, each photo has hierarchical keywords assigned to it, from Kingdom to subspecies. Although it will take me some time and work, I believe it is doable.…

Taxon changes that affect your observations show up in the feed on your home page for iNat. Or do you mean a system that emails you if there is a change so you get the notification not on iNat but in your regular email?

[image] earthknight: Taxon changes that affect your observations show up in the feed on your home page for iNat. All taxon changes? Or only those at more specific levels? And is there a way to filter my feed for taxon changes?

What iNat calls “taxon changes” are changes that involve automatically replacing old IDs with new ones through a swap, merge, or split. There are dashboard notifications for taxon changes, and you can subscribe to get email notifications for these. It sounds like you are referring to “ancestry chan…

I think it’s all taxon changed, but I’m not sure. I don’t think you can filter your feed for taxon changes, but you can apply some filters on the taxon changes page: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes You may be able apply more specific and complicated filters via the URL. I haven’t mess…

I stopped getting the email notifications many months ago despite it being turned on. They still turn up in the feed but that’s hit or miss seeing them. I query via the API periodically using; https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications.html?current=true&is_change=true&own_observati…

[image] joaolemoslima: What would be the best way of keeping track of any taxonomic changes to my observations? first, you need to tie each item in your Lightroom catalog that you want to maintain to an iNat observation. i’m not sure what happens if a given photo is tied to multiple observati…

The idea was to get both taxon and ancestry changes, but from what I could understand from other comments here it will not be that easy. The API query might work, although in a much more laborsome way. I’ll try it in the future

Not sure if I understood. That would all be done manually, correct? And when you mention “create an ancestry chain using your dynamic life list”, how do you do that? I downloaded my lifelist, but it is not easy to use it to create such an ancestry chain for each taxa (unless I’m missing something) …

[image] joaolemoslima: That would all be done manually, correct? you could automate some or all of it. i would automate at least some of the repetitive parts of the things that you would have to run whenever you need to update your catalog. [image] joaolemoslima: I downloaded my lifelist…

I’m just not sure I am able to code such thing. Not that proficient when it comes to coding

Is it possible to be notified whenever any taxonomic change occurs on one of my observed species?

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Is it possible to be notified whenever any taxonomic change occurs on one of my observed species?

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