Opinions of citizen scientists on open access to UK butterfly and moth occurrence data
Opinions of citizen scientists on open access to UK butterfly and moth occurrence data
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公民科学家对开放获取英国蝴蝶和飞蛾发生数据的意见
DOI：
10.1007/s10531-019-01824-6
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
R. Wilson
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文献类型：
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作者：
R. Fox;N. Bourn;E. Dennis;Richard T. Heafield;I. Maclean;R. Wilson
公民科学在生物多样性研究和保护中发挥着越来越重要的作用，使人们能够以具有成本效益的方式在广泛的空间尺度上收集大量数据。开放获取增加了这些数据的效用，为可能影响物种持久性的土地利用决策提供了信息，提高了透明度，并鼓励了研究应用的扩散。然而，开放获取提供物种位置的最新、精细的空间信息也可能引起贡献者的合理担忧，如可能出现意想不到的负面保护影响、侵犯隐私和对志愿者收集的数据进行商业利用。在这里，我们对两个最大的公民科学生物多样性记录计划——英国的新千年蝴蝶项目和国家飞蛾记录计划——的物种发生记录的贡献者（104个区域协调员和510个记录者）对开放获取的态度进行了分析。我们发现，虽然大多数参与者在原则上表示支持开放获取，但大多数参与者在实践中更为谨慎，倾向于限制记录的空间分辨率，特别是濒危物种的记录，并限制数据的商业再利用。此外，公民科学家的意见在英国国家、分类小组和志愿者参与计划的程度之间存在差异。为了维持成功和民主的公民科学计划，组织者、资助者和数据用户必须理解和尊重参与者对开放数据的期望和愿望，同时寻求优化数据的使用，以实现科学和社会效益。
Citizen science plays an increasingly important role in biodiversity research and conservation, enabling large volumes of data to be gathered across extensive spatial scales in a cost-effective manner. Open access increases the utility of such data, informing land-use decisions that may affect species persistence, enhancing transparency and encouraging proliferation of research applications. However, open access provision of recent, fine-scale spatial information on the locations of species may also prompt legitimate concerns among contributors regarding possible unintended negative conservation impacts, violations of privacy and commercial exploitation of volunteer-gathered data. Here we canvas the attitudes towards open access of contributors (104 regional co-ordinators and 510 recorders) of species occurrence records to two of the largest citizen science biodiversity recording schemes, the UK’s Butterflies for the New Millennium project and National Moth Recording Scheme. We find that while the majority of participants expressed support for open access in principle, most were more cautious in practice, preferring to limit the spatial resolution of records, particularly of threatened species, and restrict commercial reuse of data. In addition, citizen scientists’ opinions differed between UK countries, taxonomic groups and the level of involvement volunteers had in the schemes. In order to maintain successful and democratic citizen science schemes, organisers, funders and data users must understand and respect participants’ expectations and aspirations regarding open data while seeking to optimise data use for scientific and societal benefits.
许多分类群的地理分布范围继续向极地移动
影响因子：
1.9
作者：
Mason S
通讯作者：
Mason S
影响因子：
5.1
作者：
Michener, William K.
通讯作者：
Michener, William K.