So in 2017, iNaturalist introduced annotations , which is a way to add metadata to an observation in an iNaturalist-controlled way rather than relying on the free-for-all that is observation fields. We wanted to start out with some basic ones, such as Sex and Life Stage, as well as Plant Phenology (w…

It’s not a question about why is gender here, but why it’s the only thing there.

Sorry. I misinterpreted your comment.

[image] marina_gorbunova: It’s not a question about why is gender here, but why it’s the only thing there. Mainly because we wanted to start off a small number of annotations which were applicable to large numbers of commonly observed taxa, so we went with a few broad ones and got caught up i…

Has anyone suggested the position of the organism photographed - ventral, lateral, dorsal etc.

That’s too much for annotations (at least for now), observation fields are better.

Now that I am (belatedly) getting into the annotation thing, I find myself frustrated because it seems I can mark an observation as male OR female, adult OR juvenile, but it’s not unusual for an observation to include two or more individuals, male and female, adult and juvenile. I’m just leaving th…

It won’t happen as curators say 1 obs = 1 individual. Though there’re fields for sexes, at least I saw some for male presence and their number.

There are fields such as “mating pair” and 'in copula" that imply both sexes

If the observer hasn’t specified which individual the observation is for, I often mark it for the rarer individual. In my area of identifying that usually means juvenile rather than adult if the photo has both an adult and a juvenile. Of course, if the observer has specified it’s for the adult, I …

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karoopixie November 12, 2019, 1:43pm 118

I think perhaps photo annotations - https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-annotations/937 - would be a better place for these kinds of labels? We don’t have this feature yet, but it is on the cards apparently.

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