It is a missed opportunity that the member observation database doesn’t align with the various section archives. A member uploading, say a comet observation, could be requested to enter certain metadata to accompany their observation aligned with the comet section archive; an observation of the Sun may request different metadata aligned with the Solar Section archives; a Moon observation request metadata aligned with the Lunar Section Archive… I can see why section directors or section officers don’t want additional jobs and assume important observations will be sent to them for archiving, but I suspect there are plenty of nice and important observations on the member pages which are not in the section archives as members don’t know the importance of submitting them separately to the Section Directors, or can’t be bothered having to seemingly submit things twice.
I’m not tech-savvy enough to know how difficult or not it would be, but it would be advantageous to all if observations submitted to members’ pages could more easily be entered into the specific section archives.
We all appreciate the work of the [unpaid] Section Directors and their officers.
James