I had someone mark a few of my herbarium observations cultivated today (they are not), presumably because they disliked that I was uploading old specimens (it’s my job), and I hit the check for ‘wild’ to combat their downvote. However, for two of the observations it is not reversing the casual grade status, even though there is nothing that should be making them casual. Here are the observations:
The observations have been flagged. Unresolved flags will make an observation casual grade.
Note that iNat is not a place for herbarium specimens, unless they’re your personal observations. See https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000206052-can-i-add-herbarium-specimens-or-museum-collections-to-inaturalist-
Thank you. For my college I have been digitizing our herbarium and uploading specimens to iNat that we’ve thought could be of interest to other botanists (i.e. poorly documented species, and plants from localities that have not been recently inventoried). I did not realized that this was looked down on as I have seen observations from other herbaria, so going forward I will only upload specimens with doubtful identifications that should be reviewed by others.
iDigBio is a platform for digitizing collections, so that could be a better platform if you’re systematically digitizing your college’s collection
Yeah, unforutnately I had to suspend the account, I’m sorry. If we are made aware of accounts made for posting data not generated on iNat, we do suspend them. Not because we don’t think the data are valuable but because iNat’s just not the place for it.
Thank you! I will look into this.
When I visited the herbarium of Idaho State University in 2018, they were digitzing their speciments for upload to idigbio.