Enhancing Citizen Science Participation in Geoweb Projects through the Instance-based Data Model
Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information – Canada (SKI-Canada) 2011, March 3-6 in Fernie, BC, Canada
Roman Lukyanenko, Jeffrey Parsons, and Yolanda Wiersma
“The increased popularity of user-supplied content on the Internet provides an opportunity to convert volunteered user information into a scientifically viable resource. Geoweb is a technology that combines geographic and user supplied data online. Yet, broader participation by members of the public in Geoweb is often constrained by varied levels of domain expertise of potential project participants. Further, if a Geoweb project is to have scientific utility, an additional constraint maybe placed upon participation – conformity with conceptual requirements of a given scientific domain. In this paper we propose an instance-based model of data collection and citizen science knowledge integration with scientific domain. To test the assumptions of the model, we propose an experiment to: (1) test of the applicability of basic level categories to citizen science observations and (2) to determine if subjects are able to describe a phenomenon using a small number of observable features.”
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