Match candidate disappears after drawing new (better) annotation manually and starting new match in ARW

[Anastasia]

@Max.Muehlenhaupt

Ok, that’s interesting! That means we should try and view match results as soon as possible after identification has finished (not waiting more than 2 weeks)?

Ideally, yes. We know this isn’t always possible. Additionally, the inspection images that show the Hotspotter heat maps typically get cached after a short amount of time (I think it was 2 weeks, but I’m not 100% certain on that timeline). This means that the match has to be re-run in order to see the inspection image again and that just adds more work for the researcher and on the ML side than if the matches had been reviewed sooner.

@Max.Muehlenhaupt

(no mention, of removing the original annotation, though).

Removing an annotation doesn’t create a note in the Audit trail, but adding one does. Not all actions taken on an Encounter are recorded here, but things like adding annotation, changing the location, owner, review status, identity, and species of the animal are all logged.

I see new Annotation manually added by Max.Muehlenhaupt which would mean an annotation was added because the detector couldn’t do it automatically or that the original annotation was deleted and then manually added.

I’m not sure how comfortable you are digging into the obrowse tool on the site (there are links to it in the image preview of the encounter). It’s a development tool, though users can access it here.

If I take your old match url:
https://amphibian-reptile.wildbook.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=5468afb6-8343-461d-b0d0-3b4219273cb9&projectIdPrefix=None%20Selected

And change the URL to search for that task ID in obrowse:
https://amphibian-reptile.wildbook.org/obrowse.jsp?type=Task&id=5468afb6-8343-461d-b0d0-3b4219273cb9&projectIdPrefix=None%20Selected

I can see that there are zero media assets and zero annotations associated with this match. This indicates that both the Encounter photo and annotation that match was made on were deleted.

@Max.Muehlenhaupt

If I understand correct, with what you’re saying in your post, you basically suggest that because annotations were removed and redrawn for both encounters, the match could not be found but we only re-drew the annotation of the second encounter.

As I mentioned in this post, having a good data management workflow will help reduce the likelihood that you’ll see these significant changes in your match results because there will be less time between when the match was run and when it gets reviewed. I’m not able to shed more light on what the old matches used to look when the annotations that those matches were based on are gone because I can’t access what’s been deleted.