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So I'm going to start by choosing someone to help. I've logged into the Bloodhound Tracker site with my ORCID id & I've pressed the "Help others" button on the top right. I'm now going to pick a country. Yep, New Zealand! I'm going to pick the entomologist George Howes.
The reason I've chosen him is that I started his Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ho…. I think he's marvellous and should get credit for his collecting work. His Bloodhound page looks like this.
That first specimen was collected by someone with his initials, at the right dates, is held in a New Zealand collection. I'm confident he collected it. So I press the "net" button beside the specimen.
If I was confident he had collected ALL 25 specimens I could have pressed the black "net" button as that would automatically attribute all 25 to him in bulk. I can even increase the number of specimens on the page up to 250 (bottom left dropdown) and bulk assign all of them!
But in this case some way down the set there are specimens collected by "G Howes" in @NHM_London. I'm unsure whether this is OUR George Howes. If I'm unsure whether it is him or not I'll have to leave the specimens.
To try and work out whether it is George I'll click on the specimen. This opens a new tab & takes me to its details in @GBIF. Here I can see it's a specimen from the Leith Valley in Dunedin, collected in 1922 by G. Howes. Yep its our George! So I'll claim those specimens for him.
BUT you still have to be very careful. I keep an eye on dates. On the next page I see a date that isn't 1921 or 1922. There's a specimen collected in 1937 - still while our George was alive. But again dates - so I click to check. This specimen WASNT collected by George. #Bolivia
Further down I see specimens coming from Fishbase, but George is an entomologist. I confirm that he didn't collect those specimens either. So I claim the specimens he did collect and press the "Not them" button for the one's he didn't collect or identify.
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