[image] The Same Individual Keeps Posting CV-Suggested Misidentifications on Others' Observations, What Do I Do? It seems like average users, like myself, would be better off only using the CV suggestions for their own obs, just to get it where the right experts can see it. Rather make the ID …

We need more identifiers who are more specific generalists (people who go through “Plantae” or “Magnoliopsida”, “Animalia”, “Fungi” etc.). But I don’t agree with letting observations sit in “unknown” if someone can ID them to Kingdom. If we leave all those observations in unknown, they will drown o…

[image] environ: Because that’s a research project all of its own (that’s also using inat data, and couldn’t get enough data to train its models with without something like it). Alright. This is new information to me, which makes that point of mine moot. [image] environ: There’s nothing …

[image] eyekosaeder: I find the CV a very useful tool as a starting point into research. As it shows a list of similar species, I can start by looking at observations for every one of them and figuring out the taxonomy and the relatedness of the individual results. I identify for the largest mo…

Reading through this topic reveals that the ‘problem’ is only applicable to plants. For animals it is in all cases useful to make broad IDs like spiders, insects, even Arachnida or Arthropods. At least I do use these filters (or go to broad category projects like insects) to find things I am intres…

I am afraid that iNat will break first. If identifiers flee in despair (too many poor quality photos, too many joke IDs from hit and runs, too much too many for that taxon specialist to keep up with) then iNat will become another Facebook or Instagram or whatever pile of pretty or not so pretty pic…

I’ll go start that new topic. But I’ll warn you that I will ask for data on prolific identifiers, not expert ones, because while I am prolific (247,000 IDs), I really do not consider myself an expert in anything.

[image] eyekosaeder: If we leave all those observations in unknown, they will drown out the true unknowns, taxa that are often even more neglected but, you do realise that there are neglected taxa AMONG the plants? This could be the second obs on iNat while I wait for my 2 taxon specialists …

This whole thread is actually pretry discouraging. I think of myself as a very basic user, who really doesn’t know anything about biology beyond that’s a tree, spider, ect. I started doing this recently, mostly to id what plants were in my back yard and as sort of a landscaping aide. The citizen sci…

I think you have to keep in mind that many times what gets discussed in the forum are the outlier cases, where everyone’s trying to tinker around the edges of a really well-functioning operation. My experience has been that the vast majority of IDs I receive on my own observations are correct, and I…

The benefits and drawbacks of adding coarse identifications

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DianaStuder August 19, 2024, 11:11am 52

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