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This page gives licence details that you should consider before further sharing the Anki fish species ID flashcards and/or their source spreadsheet.

General Comments and Licensing Details for Anki fish species ID flashcards

Below are comments that appear in the Anki deck (and also in its source spreadsheet). If you not going to further share your deck then you can ignore them:

  • Description (entered into the Anki deck's Options/Description): These flashcards will help teach you to identify fish species in the wild. Underwater with limited time and air, your main species identification tool will be your brain, so we need to train it. Efficiently. Hence these flashcards. They show random photos of a fish (up to six different photos per species) and challenge you to name the species; to strengthen your memory they also ask you to recall what a species looks like when challenged with a random species Common Name. Each species card has links to Wikipedia, fishbase.de, and possibly fishesofaustralia.net.au, so looking up details of a species or its Genus or Family etc is just a finger-tap away. This opens up an interesting world, and adds meaning to all the pretty shapes swimming around you. I hope you enjoy learning them! <br> If you want to update this deck, or you want tips on making a similar deck, you can download this deck's source spreadsheet from wikisift.org.
  • Overview: When we did a volunteer diving trip with barefootconservation.org in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, they asked us to learn identify 200+ species of fish and corals etc ahead of arrival, so I created this Anki flashcard deck based on the .pdf lists that BC gave me. The cards for a specific species use the en.Wikipedia photo for that species, and have links to Wikipedia for that species, its genus, and one or sometimes two of its higher taxa. (A 'taxon' is a species, genus, family, order, subclass, etc; the plural of 'taxon' is 'taxa'). I use the Common Name used by Barefoot Conservation; if you click on the common name it takes you to the Fishbase entry for that species, and you can follow Fishbase's link to other Common Names used in different countries and languages. As well, there are corresponding Google Images links (searching on the taxon's scientific name) and Fishbase thumbnails, so that you can get a variety of other photos. Of course for Google there are no guarantees as to the accuracy of those search results, but many of the Fishbase photos are carefully curated. (Update: It turns out I was right in doubting the feasibility of learning all those species with the resources that we then had available, which is why the local BC science officer had instead implemented a survey methodology that does not require such complicated skills...)
  • LICENSING DETAILS for photos: Many photos I have used are licensed as CC By-SA, which requires identifying the source and licence requirements of each such photo; hence I have provided the fields for '... licence notes', '... licence URL', and '... licence link text'. Note that CC-By-SA photos do not violate the Anki Shared Deck Licence requirements, and conform with the Anki option of providing users with further rights - indeed it would breach the original CC licence to use the photo without informing the user of the original CC licence.
  • Source of the photos: The Pic2 series photos are downloaded from the Wikipedia photo used as the reference for each species. I have met their CC By-SA licence requirements by explaining how to source them and see the licence (some are Public Domain instead of CC By-SA). For Pics 3 - 6, I give the URL source which also provides any necessary licensing information. Sources of permissible photos include: specifying 'not filtered by licence' in a Google Image advanced search; googling ("some rights" OR "creative commons") "Chaetodon baronessa"; and searching fishbase.de, fishesofaustralia.net.au, www.ala.org.au, and lifg.australianmuseum.net.au. I have re-named all photos to make it easier to resize them and replace them etc while using Anki. The Pic1 series photos are from .PDFs emailed to me sourced from Barefoot Conservationist; I am not sure if BC can arrange permissions for those photos to be uploaded onto the Anki website for public use, so I have left them out of the publicly available flashcards.
  • Notes signed by "- JFB" (i.e. me, John F Brady, who assembled these flashcards) are not authoritative - they are merely comments I found useful to help me understand which features of the fish are important to distinguish it from similar species. I look forward to real experts correcting them.
  • Notes on the spreadsheet used to prepare the Fish Species ID Anki deck: You could add photos and species directly to the Anki Deck without using its source spreadsheet, but if you are adding more than about 10 species you will probably find it easier to update the spreadsheet and then use that to generate a new Anki deck. In fact, if you have any familiarity with Microsoft Excel (or Calc, Excel's free LibreOffice equivalent), you may find the process easier using the spreadsheet - regenerating a deck from the spreadsheet can take less than a minute. See notes at wikisift.org on how do this export & import and other Anki tricks, along with a copy of this spreadsheet and notes on its structure. If you improve it, please upload your new version back to wikiSift.
  • LICENSING DETAILS for the spreadsheet used to create the Fish Species ID Anki deck: <br>This spreadsheet is licenced under the CC By-SA viewable at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ , with attribution satisfied by specifying John Brady at wikisift.org. Cheers, John Brady, August 2018
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