Matching Plant Images Internally

[merrimacga]

Someone might want to give a score to each match indicating how close the match is. It might also help to have a note against each match explaining or justifying why that match was chosen.

Perhaps it would be helpful to poll members about each match you have identified. I looked into this and found a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. but you needed Koen's help creating that one. If it is still not possible for members, rather than moderators, to create a poll, then please disregard. But if members can start a poll, it appears as though it can only be done when creating a thread, rather than in later posts to that thread, and only one poll question allowed per poll and only one poll per thread, though that question can have multiple response options (not sure if there is a limit). In this case, you would need a separate poll thread to compare each match of 2 images you found. Where you have 3 matching images (or more), you will have a risk of lower agreement response or you will need to break out those matches so only 2 images are compared per poll (i.e. image 1 vs image 2, then image 1 vs image 3, then image 2 vs image 3). The thread itself could link back to this one (and vice versa) and include the images with folio number labels for comparison plus the justification note you mentioned. I recommend not setting a poll timeout but your thread verbiage should give an ample deadline or a minimum volume of responses and there is a poll edit option with a checkbox to close the poll manually at any time. I would also suggest setting the responses so users can indicate the percentage or degree to which the images match (e.g. no match, partial match, close match and full match OR 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% match OR match strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree and strongly disagree). Respondents can then add comments as new posts to the poll thread, keeping this thread clear for responses not related to the polls. I have posted the MyBB help link at bottom for more details on creating polls.

Admittedly, all these poll threads will be cumbersome but you could, and it would be advisable, to spread them out so that you don't have more than a handful of active ones running at one time. It's also a good idea, assuming it is possible for members to create polls, to run the first poll also as a test, just to be sure this will work well moving forward for the rest of the comparisons. Then if you need help setting up and managing the polls, I would be happy to help so you don't have to do all the work and so you can concentrate on finishing the spreadsheet.

Just a thought.

MyBB Documentation: Polls
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(You may also right click on your previous poll page and click on the pop up menu option to view source coding but I don't know if this site will allow you to HTML code the poll from scratch.)