[TN-Butterflies] bamona photo project--update

From: "Steve Stedman" <birdsongteam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:46:17 -0600
As some of you may recall, I was able to obtain limited access to the BAMONA 
database to add photos of butterflies to records that were submitted prior to 
January 2011; prior to that month, photo-documented records came to me, and I 
submitted them without the photos being part of what was submitted to BAMONA.  
I wanted to rectify this omission, since I have an archive of a couple of 
thousand photos that were the basis of many BAMONA records.

After working on this little project for a couple of months early this year, I 
discovered that, when I added a photo to a record, that record was being added 
to my personal list of submissions to BAMONA (I do not know if it remained in, 
or was removed from, the personal list of the person who originally submitted 
the record). I did not like this result of my effort to add photos to records, 
so I contacted the BAMONA folks about it.

It turns out that the only way around this problem is to wait until all records 
needing photos have had them added and then do a global removal from my 
personal list.  Since the process of adding photos is going to take a couple of 
years (at least), I would prefer that some other way to prevent the records of 
other folks from being added to my personal BAMONA records be found, so the 
photo project is on hold, and it may stay that way a while.

Another way around this problem would be for Tennessee butterfliers to submit 
additional photo-documented records for any and all species in any and all 
counties where they are active.  In this way, most species will have 
photo-documented records with actual photos available, and there will be a 
larger number of records for each species, allowing for better analysis of each 
species' presence in the state.

Anyway, as the long winter evenings stretch out before us, think about going 
through your photos and submitting some of them to BAMONA; and next year, think 
about submitting more photos of common species from your yard or neighborhood.

Thanks to all who have submitted photos to BAMONA indirectly (via me) in the 
past or directly in the recent past.  The last five years have seen an 
incredible improvement in knowledge of the distribution of the state's 
butterflies.  I hope the next five years see a similar improvement.

Good 'flyin', Steve Stedman
Cookeville (Putnam County)
[TN-Butterflies] bamona photo project--update

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