Taxonomic lists in collection projects

[mpizarro]

Hello everybody:

Can taxonomic lists be entered automatically or in batches (more than 4000 taxa) in the collection projects to filter the species?

Thank you,
Manuel

[pisum]

can you elaborate more on your proposed use case? how are you determining your list of taxa?

[mbegogarcia]

Thanks. I am a colleague of Manuel. We have made a couple of collection projects; e.g., Florapyr Alpinas (https://www.inaturalist.org/lists/4315179-Flora-alpina-Pirineos) for plants occurring on top of mountains. In “Requisitos del proyecto” we have uploaded a list of 600 plants manually so far. In parallel, we have made a list of true alpine plants (about 1000) as a .csv file, but we do not know to link it to the collection project. The same applies to another project: Florapyr-Pirineos (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/florapyr-pirineos), but in this case the full list is a .csv containing over 4000 plants. Would it be possible/recomendable to link an specific .csv list to each project? thanks!

[jwidness]

Currently the only way to get a list of taxa into a collection project is by manually adding each one. There is a pending request to allow using a list as a filter, you can vote for it and/or add to the discussion here.

[mpizarro]

Thanks for your answers.

Okay, let’s hope that functionality will be available on the iNaturalist platform soon.

I’ll vote for it.

Greetings