Screenshot from a bird voice identification app as a photo

[swampster]

@wildskyflower

Was the evidence of presence: organism annotation available when that was posted?

It was not at the time of that specific post but it has been for several similar, more-recent discussions and the stance has not changed. I’m not sure I understand exactly how it’s relevant. There is no “evidence of presence: spectrogram” annotation and a “evidence of presence: organism” annotation ties directly into the concerns of the original post. Additionally, two other concerns mentioned in the post are not addressed by “evidence of presence” in any way:

@kueda

when training our computer vision system

@kueda

and hopefully look like what others might see when seeing similar evidence for the recent presence of the same taxon.

In regards to these two, refer to my previous comment about a lack of standardization in posted spectrograms. Also, a relevant comment from that linked thread:

@cthawley

Each image on iNat needs to contain the organism observed. One important reason for this rule is that images are used for training the CV model, so including spectrograms could lead to errors in the CV model. You could post external links to an image hosting service like imgur or others if you want identifiers to have access to a spectrogram.