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GeneralNew feature for photo uploaders - Year Collected / Year Taken

25th Apr 2015 14:53 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

I've added a new option to be filled in when uploading photos.


For mineral photos you can now enter (if you know it) the year the specimen was collected.


Please be careful with this, this is the year that the specimen was found/mined and NOT necessarily the year it made it to your collection. If you purchased a specimen and are not 100% sure when it was mined then do NOT fill this in, but if you collected the piece yourself or if it came with documentation stating when it was mined then feel free to enter this.


This will in future allow us to sort photos by the year they were found and we can group together photos of minerals found at different times during a deposit's history. So if you fill in this field your photos are likely to be seen in more places than if you do not.



SImilarly, for locality photos there is now a field for year photo was taken. If you are scanning in old photos this won't be the same as the date the image was created, so we can't automate this.


Again, this will be nice to be able to show in future photos from oldest to newest so we can see the development of a mine (or whatever) over time. Diagrams and maps can similarly be dated to the time they were created using this option.


Remember, you do NOT have to fill these in, only do if you are 100% sure about the information you have.


Any questions, please ask!


Jolyon

26th Apr 2015 23:42 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

Great idea!

This has been sorely lacking in the database for quite some time.......
 
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