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 is not possible to change/delete annotations on observations that aren’t your own, only to up and downvote. You can see some discussions of this elsewhere on the forum.

Would you be comfortable with the breakdown “female” / “worker” / “male” as options under the “sex” annotation for all of Vespinae? I want to save the iNat staff the extra work it would take to add different annotation options for every species.

Agreed, there should be a distinction between “ripe” and “unripe/developing” fruits (though obviously both can be present at the same time).

What you claimed didn’t seem quite right to me, so I did some more research. The term “queen” is frequently used by Vespid researchers to refer to female obligate social parasites throughout the literature, most notably in Akre R.D. et al. (1981), which served as the definitive text on American Vesp…

I don’t think an extra annotation value should be added (for obvious reasons I hope!), but here is a type of evidence I have not yet seen and does not fit any of the current categories - the defensive fluid produced by a mole cricket

[image] bonesigh: I roughly estimate It’s only applicable to at most few thousand observations. I just wanted to say that I’ve already passed 2,000 fragments! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/seashell-fragments To be fair, I’ve also been including crustacean and echinoderm fragments, how…

[image] ribes2018: 6/19/19 Thank you for the annotation discussion link, that lead me to the annotations guide, all helpful. Plant Phenology Annotations should be kept clean and simple to reduce confusion (& fuzzy data) by all observers and produce a solid record. Because the information record…

Sorry if this has already been mentioned (I confess I haven’t read the whole of this very long thread). For a few days now, the plant annotations have not been translated into French : [image] Is it possible to fix this? (yes, it’s true, the French aren’t very good at foreign languages: thank you…

yikes, 670 posts…! I would like to see a tool for highlighting identifying features, not just for human’s identification, but also to help direct the algorithm. so for example plants have stems that are smooth, stems that have a polygonal profile, stems that are hairy; leaf margins that are smooth…

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carrieseltzer June 20, 2024, 6:08pm 706

Heads up, we’ve just released some updates to annotations for angiosperms and vascular plants. Many thanks to everyone who left comments in this thread that informed the updates.

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