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Thx again Jakbubko. It's important to put names to spottings and I was impressed that the Noah community responded to my incorrect identification so quickly! I have not been on Noah for some time. We completed our own Citizen Science website - www.Bowerbird.org.au released a few months ago. BB demands a little more structure than Noah and so far has attracted many people with Identification skills to help put names to sightings posted to projects. It also has map tools and a timeline etc. From BB we are now building a specific tool for professionals, farmers, inspectors and consultants in agriculture to create their own diagnostic networks. The concept of community and sharing in a digitall space is very powerful, as Noah has shown. Regards GK

Martin thx for the comment. I knew this wasnt a bug but was testing the Noah process. I work on the PaDIL website ( www.padil.gov.au) and we r building a citizen science space called Bowerbird.. I wonder about improving the process for identification accuracy in citizen science data sets. There seems to be an awful lot posted with a small proportion identified and even less of these verified. Maybe that's not the point right now but the next iteration of sites like Noah should consider that much of the power of the site is lost unless the data can be value added. Cheers GK

Hi all and thx for the welcome. I am a plant pathologist by training and have been working on databases for plant pests for a number of years. I was interested in Noah because we want to build social networking capabilities into our website www.PaDIL.gov.au. So I joined Noah to see what it has to offer and I think it's wonderful!!

I work on remote microscopy as well if ur interested in the concept. The easiest way to be involved is to get a USB microscope to plug Into ur computer. Check out www.dino-lite.com. Cheers