August 26 at 6:40 pm
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Christina Pikas, Ricardo Vidal, Björn Brembs and 5 other people liked this
via Vince Smith (http://vsmith.info/): "essentially a mashup of content from Wikipedia and flickr, pinned around the Catalogue of Life classification. Users can submit their own observation data linked with photos through their flickr account, and build life lists of the species they have seen. There are Google Map mashups and a neat time-line that allows users to see the date of their observations (something that would be vital for birders). You can also submit requests for species identifications through a forum" - Bill Hooker
Wow. I had almost the exact same idea for a fun side web project. Since I have no time for such projects anymore, it's great that someone else did it :) - Neil Saunders
I hope this spreads around blogs - it is a cool idea, but only if there are LOTS of people doing this it will also become a resource. - Bora Zivkovic
If you promoted it as nudism, you might actually succeed too :) - Deepak
Agree with Bora - a great resource, if enough people. Eva's recent post "me first, social later" is relevant here. If it's well designed, it will appeal to individuals who like to record these kind of data. Get enough people and the network effect kicks in. I see a flaw or two in their interface just now e.g. no calendar for the "when seen" field. - Neil Saunders
although, a lot of the groups I belong to on flickr manage to incorporate a lot of identification data gathering and consensus within the group. "Just Skippers!" for example, a group that's just about Skipper butterflies. Someone will post a pic of one, ask for an ID. People will say "I think it's x skipper, or could be y's skipper" "Really? Never heard of those ones" "Where in the country are you from?" "Which country?" "Oh, are you from overseas?" "No, I'm right here" etc… Sometimes it works, though. - Ian Tindale
Done my part, and added a first set of observations: http://inaturalist.org/observa... Nicely done site! - Jeroen Van Goey
We discussed this at Scifoo last year. Glad to see it come to life - Deepak
see eBird too: http://itc.conversationsnetwor... - _alf