adding reference to Observation we post

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Vishalbhave

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Apr 15, 2009, 9:07:37 PM4/15/09
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I think

It would be good to add reference using which Identification was done?

can we add one more section or point to observation?

Ken-ichi

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Apr 15, 2009, 10:00:45 PM4/15/09
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Howdy,

I'm afraid you lost me. Could you be a bit more specific? Do you
mean adding a reference to what piece of literature or website you
used to make an identification? What would you like to add a
"section" to?

-Ken-ichi

Vishalbhave

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Apr 16, 2009, 6:29:59 AM4/16/09
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Just a name of reference not entire document so other can use that for
further studies (if any) !
i mean to say one more "field or text box"

On Apr 16, 7:00 am, Ken-ichi <kenichi.u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm afraid you lost me.  Could you be a bit more specific?  Do you
> mean adding a reference to what piece of literature or website you
> used to make an identification?  What would you like to add a
> "section" to?
>
> -Ken-ichi
>

Ken-ichi

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Apr 17, 2009, 12:09:36 PM4/17/09
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Well, we could make it so people could add additional info links to
the taxon pages so we could link to more content than Wikipedia. So
for instance, http://inaturalist.org/taxa/51002 could contain a link
to http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=elystome. Anyone
else interested in this?

-Ken-ichi

Nate Agrin

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Apr 17, 2009, 1:01:29 PM4/17/09
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Yes. That would be awesome.

Ken-ichi

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May 22, 2009, 2:17:04 PM5/22/09
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Ok, better late than never: taxon pages now have taxon links next to
the description, and any signed-in user can add them. These can just
be plain old URLs like http://eol.org/pages/328602, or you can click
"show for descendent taxa" and use template tags in the URL to
automatically fill in the scientific name, like
http://eol.org/search?q=[NAME].

So for instance, if you check out http://inaturalist.org/taxa/51315,
you'll see I added some plain URLs like

http://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/plants/calochortus-albus

and there are some dynamic ones with template tags like:

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&rel-taxon=contains&where-taxon=[NAME]

One guideline: try to keep the dynamic links to sites with global
reach. I was tempted to add one for calflora.org for all plants, but
it would have just resulted in a lot of dead links for taxa outside of
California (CalPhotos, on the other hand, has an amazingly large
collection of images from around the world).

Vishal, I know this doesn't quite satisfy your original request, but
citation management isn't really what iNat is for. However, I
encourage you to add citations to your observation descriptions or the
Wikipedia pages if you find them useful.

-Ken-ichi

Vishal Bhave

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May 22, 2009, 2:21:41 PM5/22/09
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Thanks,
Now we can get more information about the species .

Vishal Bhave.

Samuel Goldwyn  - "For your information, I would like to ask a question."
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