Data management aspects of public engagement with biodiversity documentation
Science Programme Public Engagement with Science, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Subject Areas
- Human-Computer Interaction, Network Science and Online Social Networks, Social Computing, World Wide Web and Web Science
- Keywords
- crowdsourcing, text-mining, data integration, data policy, citizen science, data quality, environmental monitoring, digitization, primary biodiversity data, data governance
- Copyright
- © 2015 Ortiz-Troncoso
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. Data management aspects of public engagement with biodiversity documentation. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e992v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.992v2
Abstract
Technological developments open up new opportunities for collaboration between biodiversity researchers and the general public. Three exemplary case studies were reviewed from literature: digitizing museum specimens, text-mining archived expedition journals and handling environmental monitoring data. Data management principles were applied to refine the ensuing requirements. Specific requirements were found to exist in three areas: collecting data, sharing data and improving data quality. Implications for data governance and quality control are discussed.
Author Comment
This is an updated version of the preprint.