Hello! Most of my experience comes from collection projects, and I’m pretty new when it comes to creating traditional projects. I was hoping to get some help when it comes to efficiently managing a collection project. The project I’ve recently created is the iNat Photo Ark · iNaturalist. The goal of this project is to collect organisms that emulate the look of the official photo ark.
For the longest time it was just me adding observations. I had it set where only me and project curators could add observations. After thinking about it more I’m wanting to allow anyone to be able to add observations to this project. However, my concern is adequately managing what is allowed in the project. Since this has become such a big project, I’m not sure how to verify that the observations that are being added are following the project requirements. I don’t know if I just have to periodically scroll through all of the observations in this project or what. I’m just wondering if there’s a simpler and more efficient way of doing this.
In my experience, there is a subset of people that will add any and all of their observations to a project if the project parameters allow them to. This will likely be even more true for a project with some inherent subjectivity.
For one of my traditional projects, I periodically scroll through all of the observations and remove ones that aren’t relevant. And for two others, I have it set so only only project curators can add observations.
That’s a really good point you make! Thank you! I think for now I’ll just have it set for me and project curators to add observations until there’s I find a more efficient way of doing it. Thanks again!
If you find - that you add a batch of photos from a particular observer. Who enjoys that sort of photography. Then you can have a copypasta comment - and invite them to join the project.
Join by invitation, means you can first decide if they will be a good fit.
There is no way to set iNat filters to - only from our weekly hikes. Excluding the dog walks earlier or later that day. Excluding weeks when you hike with a different group to ours. Excluding cosmopolitan weeds and invasive aliens.
You could make an observation field that is required. At least then people can’t batch-upload any observations. For example in the “Never-home-alone”-project it is required to agree to the question: This organism was found inside, right?