This is a place to track fields with are in broad use or have the potential to be broadly used, and are applicable to a broad range of taxa (ie. no ‘number of koalas’ field). Please add fields that you find useful or any relevant comments or description. Blank ones i don’t know which version of many…

These can be useful fields for interactions: https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields?utf8=✓&q=interaction->&commit=Search Name Datatype Description interaction->mutualism with taxon two organisms who benefit by interacting with each other. Please select the other organism in the par…

note that the field Charlie mentioned is a different one to the “visited flower of” in this set. One of the problems with fields is the extreme flexibility of them! We often end up with duplication. Because of the comprehensiveness of what Jon Sullivan set up, I prefer to use these ones, but there a…

[image] charlie: wow, that’s… a lot. Is it darwincore or something? I @charlie (and other moderators)… please be careful when you move posts around, as it can make things very disjointed and hard to follow. Looking at the start of this “wiki” is a post by Charlie that is then followed by a re…

I meant to refer to the main interaction form, but just misspelled since I was on my phone. I think. I didn’t move this post,but yeah. We are still calibrating on how to best balance the confusing of moving posts with the confusion of excess duplication like what plagued the google groups

[image] kiwifergus: Looking at the start of this “wiki” is a post by Charlie that is then followed by a reply by Charlie about Darwincore? A user deleted their comment, which is what Charlie was responding to.

All these fields assume that the ID on the interaction is correct or is known!! I prefer fields which link to the relevant observation without making any assumptions about the ID. e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/interactions-s-afr

[image] misspt: I am trying to find information on how to best note pollinator and plant relationships I am observing. What I do at present is to add two fields to the observation (example) . One as others have said, “Interaction->Visited Flower of” and another, “Associated observation”. The s…

The Similar Observation Set field is useful when creating multiple observations of the same organism. I’ve used it for multiple observations of toads & tadpoles in the same pond during the year. It could also be used when multiple people observe the same organism. Here is a link: Using the field “S…

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A user deleted their comment, which is what Charlie was responding to.

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