On another thread, I came across a mention that adding certain observation fields will affect how these records are handled by external tools such as GBIF: [image] City Nature Challenge - issues & suggestions for improvement The main reason I use the ‘Duplicates Observation’ field is to keep the…

[image] annkatrinrose: [image] City Nature Challenge - issues & suggestions for improvement The main reason I use the ‘Duplicates Observation’ field is to keep the observation out of GBIF, even if it does get to RG. I wasn’t aware of this that’s probably because it’s not true. you can …

I believe fungi with the “DNA Barcode ITS” observation field get pulled into MycoMap for blast searches, but that’s the only one I know about.

Correct, it does not affect whether something is in GBIF.

@annkatrinrose I don’t see any substantial issues with duplicates as it makes little difference whether a single observer shares the same observation mutiple times or multiple users the same organism multiple times. iNat isn’t a platform generating highly structured and quantitative data, so it’s mo…

There is an issue for identifiers. Both duplicates, and ‘single subject’ spread over many obs - make more work for identifiers. If you need a few fieldmarks to ID that sp of bat - and the field marks are all on iNat - but spread over a few obs, you need to spend extra time on each one - till you c…

There are lots of ways observers make unnecessary work for identifiers - photos of distant trees, photos of a single simple dicot leaf, beautiful close-up photos of a flower in a genus with many species with similar flowers, photos of a small blurry rodent half under leaves (I did just that), photos…

Carrot and stick? If we can tip the balance from Don’t DO That to them helping to resolve the issue, and pay it forward - then the quality of iNat obs will improve, and the work load will be spread over many more iNatters.

[image] DianaStuder: ‘single subject’ spread over many obs I made an observation field to combine these into sets , e.g. group pictures of leaves, stems, and flowers of what seems to be the exact same plant with the same time/location of observation. Unfortunately I only had limited time to wo…

Whoops! My apologies for misleading everyone. I hope that in filling in the duplicate observation that the observation in question can be filtered out by those using the GBIF data. Would this be true?

no, because that observation field doesn’t carry across into GBIF

Observation fields that affect GBIF/GloBi etc

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annkatrinrose May 15, 2025, 3:19am 5

Aw, bummer, and here I thought we finally had a solution to offer for duplicates.

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Observation fields that affect GBIF/GloBi etc

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