An Overview of Citizen Science Needs for Biodiversity Standards and Tools Robert D. Stevenson University of Massachusetts Boston

An Overview of Citizen Science Needs for Biodiversity Standards and

Tools

Robert D. StevensonUniversity of Massachusetts Boston

http://efg.cs.umb.edu/[email protected]

Science Framework

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Community Data Archived

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Increasingly Specialized Role for People and Need for Science Library Infrastructure

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Data Quality - IG Factor

The Invisible Gorillaby Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons

Attention

Memory

Confidence

Knowledge Cause

Illusions of

Data Quality1) Quality Assurance Project Plans2) Initial and continued Training of Observers3) Rating Observers4) Experience in participation 5) Review by more experienced observers6) Electronic Filtering based on previous data

collected7) Recheck with Observer8) Digital Voucher

Working in Teams

Remembering what motivates and what discourages citizens

Domain experts Interface designer

Educators Software Engineers

Scientists

Know the Human Observation Sensor!

From a stroll by the stream to RSRs

Use Common Names --

• Standards: Common names in the Global Names Service Architecture

•Tools that: Promote field naturalists groups to standardize names and interact with taxonomists

More Explicit Support for Data Quality

• As more citizen science data gets published and used, especially in conjunction with other data, scientists want to now about data quality.

Support for Ecological Studies

Habitats

Microhabitats

Methods for observations -

Sampling effort

Ecological relationships

Tools with User Interfaces for Mobile Phones and Pads