Let's Talk Annotations

[tiwane]

Playing around with some suggestions on our test server. Here’s what a moss observation looks like after Sex has been removed from Bryophyta, and Gametophyte and Sporophyte added as Life Stage options:

To which taxa would something like this apply?

@annkatrinrose

And finally, since the majority of plants (>90% of flowering plants) are bisexual/hermaphrodites, it would be nice to have that as an option for sex.

What’s the use case here? Will it aid in identification or with seasonality/phenology charts? Marking a plant of a known bisexual species as bisexual seems redundant to me, but I’m not not a botanist.

@carnifex

I am interested in unterstanding if these kinds of annotations for social insects would be easy to implement and what speaks against having this feature displaying the seasonal distribution of the three adult types. @tiwane You think something like this is possible?

What would the Annotation (eg Life Stage) and values (eg worker, queen) bee? (pun intended)

@connorcochrane

For Birds, the options for age in birds are Juvenile, Adult, and Egg. Immature is a different stage of life than Juvenile, and I believe it should have its own section in the drop down menu. I don’t know if this has previously been brought up.

I don’t have deep knowledge of bird life stages - is immature a generally agreed upon life stage, and one that is readily discerned from photos for many species?

@mkremedios

Right now I put links to many separate observations of different species that were, say, all on the same branch at the same time, in the notes field of the others, but perhaps there could also be a way to use annotations to list other species “associating with” the one observed. And then it would be something actually tagged to the data, rather than something a person only discovers following links in the notes or reading a description.

Annotations have a limited list of discrete values, it’s not possible to search for an enter another taxon as an annotation. You can use Observation Fields for this at the moment.

@mkremedios

on some fungi, for example, there are algae that grow on them and change the appearance, which could be nice to annotate “algae present” “algae absent”

This seems pretty niche and would be better suited as an observation field.

@mkremedios

Also for fungi, annotations for people doing microscopic work and who have included images of the spores, asci, etc.

I think a good fit for a long-gestating photo annotation functionality. So basically being able to label each photo in on observation. But something like that will have to wait until other features are completed.