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15 de febrero de 2018

Beetledude wants to make his resources and notes available to all

 
I have a large and growing collection of invert ID tips, self-made identification keys and invert taxon diagnoses, and hopefully-helpful notes. On iSpot I must have added over 1,000 such contributions already. Many of these were popular on that soon-to-vanish platform. Before iSpot banished Google indexing, I was also pleased to see my taxonomic resources being used by people that had nothing to do with iSpot, but who could locate my stuff by googling.
 

Is it feasible if I would (gradually) make a collection of my resources and notes here in my 'journal'? They would then all be in one place, instead of being scattered as comments among numerous observations ... and lost.

 
This will not be for my benefit, but for that of the iNat community, and I do hope for that of the normal googling person also. My satisfaction lies therein that this will be part of my contribution to the common good and to increased public understanding of science.
 

    Will it work out to consolidate my notes & keys here, as 'journal entries'?

    ◘ Is it easy enough to refer from an observation to a specific journal entry with a hyperlink? This is essential.
    ◘ Are the journal entries retrospectively editable into the future? This is essential.
    ◘ It is possible for other people to comment on journal entries. To whom are those comments visible? Ideally it should be everybody.
    ◘ Is it possible to 'follow' journal entries? I haven't found a way {yet}. This is desirable.
    ◘ Is it possible to subscribe to somebody's journal to receive notifications of new entries? This would be useful.
    ◘ Are the Google bots allowed to crawl the journals on iNat? That would be ideal for my stated purpose.

 
Another question:
Can one ping somebody from inside a journal entry? Did the system beckon you here, to answer my questions and give me advice, @tonyrebelo and @bouteloua and @loarie and @jakob?
 
This is my first journal post. I shall probably become able to answer some of my own questions just by posting this.
 

Comments from anybody will be welcome!

 
 

Publicado el febrero 15, 2018 06:51 TARDE por beetledude beetledude | 12 comentarios | Deja un comentario