How the Citizen Science Platform iSpot Ensures Data Accuracy During and After Collection

Dodd, Michael (2022). How the Citizen Science Platform iSpot Ensures Data Accuracy During and After Collection. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 6, article no. e94578.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.94578

Abstract

The iSpot citizen science platform has been collecting biodiversity data since 2009 and includes ~900,000 observations, about half of these are in the British Isles. Our system to ensuring data accuracy, especially of species identification, uses metadata uploaded with photographs for time and sometimes location, a reputation system, an active user community and curation by an experienced ecologist.

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• Michael Dodd