Αύγουστος 29, 2023

How to make your records more accessible


We like to think that our wildlife records can be used by ecologists, planners, conservationists and many other organisations, but this isn’t always automatically the case. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to make sure your iNaturalist Records have an even bigger impact; and it’s as simple as changing a setting to make sure your wildlife records can be shared with those who need it.

The default licencing setting for your data on iNaturalist is “CC-BY-NC”. This means your record can be shared with researchers, but excludes access and use by many commercial organisations. This setting can prevent records being used by some wildlife recording schemes and local environmental records centres too. So, we highly recommend changing your iNaturalist settings to to an open licence such as “CC0” or “CC-BY”, which will enable your records to be used as widely as possible.


How to change your observation licence so that it can be freely used
On Andriod phones: Open the iNaturalist App: Go to Settings > Default Licenses > choose CC0 or CC-BY for “Default observation licence”
For website users: Log onto iNaturalistUK Go to Account Settings > Content and Display > Licensing > Choose CC0 No Copywrite or CC-BY “Attribution” for “observation license”
For iPhone users: Go to the desktop website for iNaturalistUK and follow the instructions for website users


What do the different licences mean?
There are 8 licencing options available when you open the "licencing" option on your settings. The top 2 (CC0 and CC-BY) are of most use outside of iNaturalist:

CC0 = No Copyright - This means you're happy for anyone to use these observations/photos/sounds for any purpose, and they can use them without crediting you as the owner. Other people can also create new material based on your work.

CC-BY = Attribution - This means anyone can use your observations/photos/sounds as long as they credit you as the owner. Others can create new material based on your work.

CC-BY-NC (default when signing up to iNaturalist) = Attribution, Non Commercial - This means anyone can use your observations/photos/sounds as long as they credit you as the owner. They cannot use your observations/photos/sounds in a commerical way (i.e. to make profit). This setting can prevent records being used by some wildlife recording schemes and local environmental records centres.


You can also can set your photo, sound and observations to have different licences. For example, if you're a professional photographer and you're happy for anyone to use your observation record but you want to protect your photos from being used commerically, you can set your Observation to CC-BY, and your Photos to CC-BY-NC.


It takes only a few seconds to make this change. You can find out more about what the various licencing options mean on this page: https://uk.inaturalist.org/blog/58298-licensed-to-share or find out more about what happens to biodiversity data here

Thank you for making your records of wildlife go even further and have even more positive impact!

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Απρίλιος 24, 2020

Online events

The Festival of Nature Team in Bath and Bristol have teamed up with wildlife experts from Bristol Museum and Art gallery for the following live Q&As events:

  • Discovering Garden Bees with Rhian Rowson, Curator of the Natural History Collection, 2pm (GMT+1)
  • Moth Trapping with moth expert Ray Barnett, Head of Collections and Archives, 3pm (GMT+1)

Join us on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/festofnature/ or Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXQF8FQDBKkOpauJ3JAjjkg.

Not to be missed!

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City Nature Challenge in Bristol and Bath is on!

City Nature Challenge has begun! Already in the Bristol and Bath region there have been a fantastic 112 observations. We’re looking forward to seeing what wonderful creatures are recorded during the first day of the Challenge.

Don’t forget to join us this afternoon when we’ll be live with wildlife experts from Bristol Museum and Art Gallery for Q&As about garden bees and moths. Catch us live from 2pm on our facebook https://www.facebook.com/festofnature/ and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXQF8FQDBKkOpauJ3JAjjkg pages. More details of the online events can be found on our website: http://www.festivalofnature.org.uk/

Have fun discovering the wildlife on your doorstep!

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