I’ve seen a lot of confusion on observations of old specimens on whether or not they should be counted as research grade. When I went looking for guidelines on what to do in situations like this, I’ve found out that we (currently) only have one concrete rule on how this should work: the evidence of …

[image] ajamico: So, here’s the question that I’d love to get input on (or ideally a staff member to provide a concrete rule): If the evidence of the organism is older than 100 years from the present day, but within 100 years of the date of observation, is that considered “Recent evidence of an…

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ajamico May 9, 2022, 5:36am 6

There’s actually a pretty good discussion about this here https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/museum-herbarium-collection-digitisation-on-inaturalist-yes-or-no/5374

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