Saturday, July 13, 2013

iNaturalist assistance

iNaturalist is a fantastic platform for developing your own citizen science projects. Here are some great tutorials about power-using it. Even if you already use iNat, you'll probably learn some useful things here.

How to create an account...


iNaturalist: Creating an Account & Changing Account Settings from S Cadwell on Vimeo.

Adding a basic observation through the website, rather than with a smart-phone...


iNaturalist.org: adding an observation from S Cadwell on Vimeo.

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Got an account now? The following is a really rich and powerful video showing:
  • What is iNaturalist and who uses its data?
  • How to add an observation, 
  • How to batch observations, 
  • How to use iNaturalist as a field guide, 
  • How to incorporate your Facebook and other social media photos in iNaturalist,
  • How to invite other Facebook user photos to your project...


Turning your Facebook photos into ctizen-science observations with iNaturalist from iNaturalist on Vimeo.
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Once you are comfortable, you may want to learn how to set up your own project on iNaturalist...


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