I’m unhappy with the existing annotation categories. Example: obs. is an empty sea or crab shell should DEAD be marked and/or CONSTRUCTION ? Especially construction is kind of strange for me → e.g. is the nest of a bird (not part of the animal, undoubtful a construction) the same cat. as a sh…

For a snail/bivalve, just mark it as dead. I’d choose organism for evidence of presence if you like, but it’s not necessary, I’d imagine. For these organisms, I think it’s implied that a shell is part of the evidence in almost all cases. For a crab shell, it would depend of the shell is a molt or i…

That sounds logical - thanks for your quick answer !

One final confirmation: Category construction should only be used for things that are NOT part of an animal ?!

[image] miwi2020: Category construction should only be used for things that are NOT part of an animal ?! I’m sure there are some gray areas, there always are in nature, but the construction value’s purpose is to help people find things the animal made that are separate from the animal, like s…

[image] tiwane: For a dead crab, just dead and organism should work, I think To play Devil’s Advocate, if a shell is marked as ‘organism’ because it’s part of the animal, shouldn’t the same apply to a bone?

I mean, we could parse these infinitely but I don’t see a point. The purpose to make useful categories for the photo browser and for projects. The Bone value is also defined thusly : Predominantly endoskeletal remains. Partial bone exposure in an otherwise intact organism should be labeled “Organis…

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