Looking for annotaiions. Any one is struggling too?

[diegoalmendras]

A few days ago, a user asked how to find out when a certain species blooms, and I noticed that the Explorer section doesn’t allow searching by annotations, which is not very intuitive. I spent quite a while searching, only to find that it’s only available in the Identify section. Is this correct? It seems a bit off-topic, and I think Explorer should allow searching by annotations.

[thebeachcomber]

you can search for annotations via Explore by directly modifying the URL

@jdmore

Search for Annotations

&term_id= - the annotation group

• 1=Life Stage, 9=Sex, 12=Flowers and Fruits, 36=Leaves, 17=Alive or Dead, 22=Evidence of Presence, 33 Established (pilot test in Reptiles/Amphibians only)

&term_value_id= - the value within the group

• Life Stage: 2=Adult, 3=Teneral, 4=Pupa, 5=Nymph, 6=Larva, 7=Egg, 8=Juvenile, 16=Subimago
• Sex: 10=Female, 11=Male, 20 Cannot Be Determined
• Flowers and Fruits: 13=Flowers, 14=Fruits or Seeds, 15=Flower Buds, 21=No Flowers or Fruits
• Leaves: 37=Breaking Leaf Buds, 38=Green Leaves, 39=Colored Leaves, 40=No Live Leaves
• Alive or Dead: 18=Alive, 19=Dead, 20=Cannot Be Determined
• Evidence of Presence: 23=Feather, 24=Organism, 25=Scat, 26=Track, 27=Bone, 28=Molt, 29=Gall, 30=Egg, 31= Hair, 32=Leafmine, 35=Construction
• Established: 34=Not Established

Both the group parameter and value parameter should be included in the URL. And term_value_id should be able to accept a comma-separated list of more than one value.

Here are all verifiable Lepidoptera observations with a Life Stage of Larva: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=47157&term_id=1&term_value_id=6

And here are all verifiable Lepidoptera observations with a Life Stage of Larva or Adult: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?page=2&place_id=any&taxon_id=47157&term_id=1&term_value_id=2,6

To exclude observations with particular annotations, use the following similar to the above:

• &without_term_id= to exclude observations with any annotation in this group
• &term_id=xx&without_term_value_id= to exclude observations with a specific annotation value
• &term_id_or_unknown=xx&without_term_value_id to exclude observations with a specific annotation value, or which have no value set for that term

For example, to see observations NOT marked as alive, dead, or undetermined use https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?without_term_id=17

For observations that are marked as alive or undetermined but NOT dead, use https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?term_id=17&without_term_value_id=19

For observations that are marked as alive or undetermined or null (no value set) but NOT dead, use https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?term_id_or_unknown=17&without_term_value_id=19

For more information about Annotations, see the help article

[bouteloua]

@diegoalmendras

I think Explorer should allow searching by annotations.

The Explore page is so old that it predates the addition of Annotations to the site. I’m sure annotations will be added to the search interface whenever they redesign it, but for now you can follow the guide above, or you can also do your search filtering in the user interface Identify and then just remove “/identify” from the URL.

@diegoalmendras

a user asked how to find out when a certain species blooms

Sending them to the taxon page > Flowers and Fruits tab of the graph might be a quicker way to find that info. They can also Filter by Place in the top right there:

[diegoalmendras]

this is exactly what I did, because the option provided above is also, more confusing for new user :( thanks guys