Designing online species identification tools for biological recording: the impact on data quality and citizen science learning.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, the number and scale of environmental citizen science programmes that involve lay people in scientific research have increased rapidly. Many of these initiatives are concerned with the recording and identification of species, processes which are increasingly mediated through digital interfaces. Here, we address the growing need to understand the particular role of digital identification tools, both in generating scientific data and in supporting learning by lay people engaged in citizen science activities pertaining to biological recording communities. Starting from two well-known identification tools, namely identification keys and field guides, this study focuses on the decision-making and quality of learning processes underlying species identification tasks, by comparin

SUBMITTER: Sharma N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354666 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature