I’ve been visiting a place in Europe for a few weeks - and someone who saw a rare flower I posted asked me to add my observations in that region to a site called “ observation.org ” and not inaturalist. He said scientists employed at the local natural history museum use observation.org to keep track o…

Probably not the biggest deal in the world but this other platform also exports its observation data to GBIF so if you upload to both, the observations would presumably be double counted there.

Yeah, I wouldn’t double post (both iNat and observation.org go to GBIF). Your data from iNat are perfectly accessible. If the researchers know how to use observation.org , they certainly know how to use iNat and GBIF as well - if they aren’t using them, that’s on them imo. I get frustrated with the “…

i don’t think double counting is a worry. if i were doing research, i’d do a fair bit of deduping by time/place and by indiv to control for various biases. consider e.g. school groups or even bird walks where multiple folks post the same individual/time/place.

It think this will grow as a problem, as many regional and even national sites are rarely well made UI/UX-wise, just take a look at the Norwegian Artsobservasjoner - it is painfully outdated, and I only use it in “emergencies”. It appears that many are unable to understand the scope and goal of our…

observation.org is not so bad in terms of UI/UX - there are worse. There e.g. is also https://www.naturbeobachtung.at which is operated by the Naturschutzbund (main office in Salzburg). Whenever I contribute my volunteer time to projects I always check how open the project is. For example, I don’t w…

It used to be the same here in Sweden, with artfakta.se being the preferred (but very clunky) platform for conservationists here, but ever since iNat got a Swedish version, all RG observations from here show up on their maps too.

Nowadays it is very very closed. Read the “Gebruikersvoorwaarden” and you see it is far from open. Top users [image] old.observation.org is not that bad but i always use the app, not the website. The new website is up to date with userinterface but works 3 times slower. Anyway, now I’m torn …

[image] elias105: But then I checked if anyone is actually using that site There is a subsite, waarneming.nl that only included the Netherlands and they have 85.000 observations in a day… The international part is not that popular. If you decide to copy your observations take a look at Vetg…

Of course local site (and it was started as local, Netherlands and now more for Europe) would have more observations than iNat, for noww or forever I can’t say, but there’s no reason to spend time on duplicating your observations that go to GBIF and even if they don’t, iNat is a good replacement for…

I somehow came across the app of observation.org , yesterday. And asked me a similar question, it looked as if there would be challenges like in SEEK, and I thought, maybe I I could get some new inspiration and use it a bit/look at the challenges. But, after doing an account the only challenge that…

Should I export some observations to observation.org?

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marina_gorbunova June 12, 2022, 9:39pm 19

There is a duplicating of data in GBIF as was mentioned, so there’s no real reason to use both and means you have to change licenses here to avoid that.

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Should I export some observations to observation.org?

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