# Standardize and Clean Up Observation Fields **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [February 22, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/standardize-and-clean-up-observation-fields/363 "2019-02-22T17:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/standardize-and-clean-up-observation-fields/363/17 "2019-03-09T01:44:55Z")
OK, I know this is not the answer you wanted to hear, but we talked it over and Observation Fields were designed to be a place that iNaturalist doesn’t exert much influence over. It’s user-controlled and we’re not going to step in here as far as organizing and standardizing things. So I’m going to close this, but note that: - I’ve submitted a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2181) to make observation field search results be ranked by the number of observations a field has been used with, to at least bring up the more often-used fields from a list of fields with duplicative functions. I’m hoping this will cause some to be more used than others. - I’ve also posted an [Annotations topic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627) in General as a way to get some more standardized metadata fields available for certain taxa. I know this is something we dropped the ball on in 2017. - I’ll add your requests for better Obs Field search options to our team document for our planned upgrade of Search. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/standardize-and-clean-up-observation-fields/363)._