If an observation has a dead video URL (or the video has been removed ), and no photos, screenshots of the video or audio is uploaded, and the URL is not backed up by iNat or made available otherwise (e.g. I am describing extended features that may accompany this feature, and can be posted in a separate thread, and are not necessary for this feature in order to improve the status quo. So as much as I like the embed idea, I think improved support for uploading/searching for video observations is more beneficial to improving iNat’s data & ID’s supported by videos. There are, I suppose, searches for field:Video%20Link, and a handful of similar fields, but it appears even fewer people (roughly 0.5K observations) are using those than people submitting animated media to the Animated Observations project. That won’t, however, find any that just had a link to youtube and no mention of the word “video”. The best I could come up with is a tags/description search for “video”, matching about 10K observations.
Related to that, I see no obvious / reliable way to find observations with videos linked in the description to find out exactly how many observations would benefit from this feature. The limitations of such media are sufficiently strict & the bar set high for people to create decent animated observations, though, that few people actually add them (0.00004%, or barely over 1K observations on iNat are in this project). Sometimes an animation is exactly what you need to illustrate a behaviour or clinch an ID, but unless it is provided as media on the iNat platform, does it count as “evidence”? An embed for a link media on another platform would blur the lines and maybe discourage people from at least providing still images from their video along with the video link (thus disqualifying it from ever reaching RG).įor current support iNat has for uploading short/small video clips to observations, see. Though I think this would be cool, I worry that it might decrease incentive to provide animated observations as evidence on the observation.
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