[Taxacom] Fwd: Any suggestions of open source monitoring software/web sites that stores and makes available location images?

[Mary Barkworth]

My  apologies to everyone. There is another deadline (actually a few) but I really appreciate all the suggestions. I am eager not to reinvent the wheel - and yes, being able to rely on someone else for system maintenance would be important.

I was asked what I wanted to be able to do with the images and the flip answer is anything that is possible now and that becomes possible in future.  A less flip answer is look at changes in plant coverage, termite mound abundance, spread of an invasive species, increased frequency of oil spills - depending on what, where and how, the images were recorded.  Images allow ordinary people with minimal formal background to participate in environmental monitoring by contributing  potentially useful information. 

Mary


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Keeping on... Morphbank http://www.morphbank.net has a "localities"
function here; http://www.morphbank.net/MyManager/?tab=localityTab (quotes
121,000 localities entered spread over 6,000 pages) which can have associated images, although the initial few default pages all say "No.
images: 0". I guess if you have a known locality name you can search for it, though... Morphbank seems set up/originally intended for individual species/specimens but you could see whether habitats would be in scope, I imagine.

Again it will ultimately come down to which project seems the best fit for your people/clients to consider, will permit easy search and retrieval of the images as needed, and is likely to be there for the long term (with somebody else doing the system maintenance!!)

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Tony Rees
> Sent: 29 November 2017 20:04
> Cc: (Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu)
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Any suggestions of open source monitoring 
> software/web sites that stores and makes available location images?
>
> Hi Mary,
>
> iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/) seems to have a lot of 
> traction for species observations globally. Maybe there is an element 
> of this that could suit your needs? I guess important factors for your 
> decision would be to seek a system with substantial take-up already 
> and onward data sharing already in place, have likely sustainability 
> into the future, as well as other aspects / functionality already in 
> place that could benefit your project in ways beyond your immediate initial need.
>
> Regards - Tony
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
>
> On 30 November 2017 at 05:17, Peter Rauch <peterar at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > Mary,
> >
> > "...record standardized images of a location...."
> >
> > "...tracking changes over time at that location".
> >
> > "...the way collections networks bring specimen data together."
> >
> > Without more details on what sorts of "changes" are to be detectable 
> > by these "standardized" images, it's a bit of a challenge to know 
> > whether any existing systems would suffice.
> >
> > How about https://www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook
> > and https://www.usanpn.org/nn/become-observer
> > and https://www.usanpn.org/
> >
> > There are lots of good ideas (about "standardization" and "location"
> > and "change" [of a sort --phenological] and a way to "bring data
> together"
> > nationally), though the diving in deep to systematize and record 
> > phenological information specifically may be beyond your need.
> >
> > I think the first question that needs more elaboration is what you 
> > want from "standardized images" and "what changes"?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > > From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On 
> > > Behalf Of Mary Barkworth
> > > Sent: 28 November 2017 21:00
> > > To: (Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu)
> > > Subject: [Taxacom] Any suggestions of open source monitoring 
> > > software/web sites that stores and makes available location images?
> > >
> > > I am interested in encouraging people to record standardized 
> > > images of a location and saving them to a web site, with 
> > > appropriate metadata, so
> > that
> > > they could be used to track changes over time at that location.  I 
> > > know this sort of work is done, but I would appreciate being told 
> > > of a
> > program,
> > > web site and or organization that brings such resources together 
> > > the way collection networks bring specimen data together.
> > >
> > > Mary
> > >
>
>
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