Yearly Collection Projects

Hello,

I’ve only ever made one collection project (one project in general), and it was a limited BioBlitz project. I’m just wondering–as I couldn’t find any information on it–if it is possible to set multiple date ranges in a collection project to allow for a recurring, cumulative, yet annual project.

It seems to me that most people make new projects for limited collections, so I’m assuming this is not possible. Is a single month the smallest amount of time a collection can pull from in terms of range?

Thanks!

One possibility would be to create an umbrella project that gathers up the individual yearly projects.

Here is an example I have created which currently gathers up the results of 5 annual bioblitz events: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ballarat-region-bioblitz

These bioblitz events went for 4 days each year. I don’t know what the smallest amount of time you can have a collection project run for is - but it is a lot less than a month. You can probably do it for 24 hours, or maybe even less.

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this is not possible

no, you can include a period of a few weeks, a week, a few days, one day; in fact, you can define a range of 1 minute! (I just created a dummy project and it let me)

Thank you very much for the reply!

I had the thought to make an umbrella project, which is likely what I will do in the future.

As for the duration of a project, I think I worded my question weirdly. If you were to create a project that collects from, say, July, would it collect new data every July for x amount of years, or does it still only let you collect from a specific duration of time (as in July 2025, for example)?

Thank you for the help!

No, you have to select specific dates, you can’t make a project that shows observations in July of every year.

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You can, however, filter for July of every year on the “Explore” tab:


The same thing is achieved directly in the URL by adding month=7:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?month=7&verifiable=any

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