A Symposium and Workshop to Recommend Biodiversity Informatics Best Practices for Citizen Science Programs, October 27-31, 2014, Jonkoping, Sweden

为公民科学项目推荐生物多样性信息学最佳实践的研讨会和讲习班，2014 年 10 月 27-31 日，瑞典延雪平

• 批准号: 1447083
• 负责人: Robert Stevenson
• 金额: $ 3.51万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Boston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1447083&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Workshop; Recommend; Biodiversity; Informatics

The University of Massachussets Boston is awarded a grant to support a symposium and workshop to bring together biodiversity scientists, citizen science project leaders, and biodiversity information scientists to review case studies of programs and propose best practices based on science and informatics standards. The worshop will be held in Jönköping, Sweden together with the annual meeting of Biodiversity Information Standards Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG). Citizen science projects, such as CitiSci.org, eBird, and REEF, provide unique and valuable species occurrence records because they can mobilize citizens to collect data in ways that scientists, alone, cannot. Citizen Science can be thought of as a new kind of instrument that has demonstrated its ability to provide important biodiversity data. However, the tradeoffs between engaging and training people to participate and collecting useful scientific data are not well understood. Some projects, developed in an education and outreach framework, aim to simply engage and inform participants in science activities, while others demand a much higher degree of skill and commitment to compile scientifically sophisticated observations. The paper resulting from the symposium/workshop provides guidance and best practice about the tensions between recruiting, engaging, and training participants and ensuring a high value of the data collected. In addition, the workshop provides guidance about how to improve and quantify data quality, as there are no established procedures for calibrating this new kind of instrument, we call Citizen Science. The symposium/ workshop and resulting paper raises the prominence of Citizen Science activities in biodiversity science and articulates the need for new standards in biodiversity informatics. This effort drafts recommendations to address unique needs to Citizen Science biodiversity data, such as the need to incorporate common names standards, and metadata on survey methods and analysis techniques to facilitate data re-use from Citizen Science programs. Citizen Science programs are increasingly used in formal K-16 and informal science education settings expanding opportunities of people to do authentic science and increase science literacy and awareness of local environmental issues. The resulting recommendation and best practices are shared with new Citizen Science Alliance organization and their recently formed technology committee. This information can guide designers and program managers of citizen science projects who want to improve the scientific quality of the data they produce. Our activities initiate a partnership between the Biodiversity Information Standards (TWDG) and Citizen Science Alliance that can support biodiversity standards development for Citizen Science.

马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校获得一笔赠款，以支持一个研讨会和讲习班，汇集生物多样性科学家，公民科学项目负责人和生物多样性信息科学家，审查方案的案例研究，并提出基于科学和信息学标准的最佳实践。研讨会将与生物多样性信息标准分类数据库工作组（TDWG）年会一起在瑞典延雪平举行。 公民科学项目，如CitiSci.org、eBird和REEF，提供了独特而有价值的物种发生记录，因为它们可以动员公民以科学家无法单独收集的方式收集数据。公民科学可以被认为是一种新的工具，已经证明它有能力提供重要的生物多样性数据。然而，人们对吸引和培训人们参与与收集有用的科学数据之间的权衡并没有很好的理解。有些项目是在教育和外联框架内制定的，目的只是让参与者参与科学活动并向其提供信息，而另一些项目则需要更高程度的技能和承诺来汇编科学上复杂的观测结果。研讨会/讲习班产生的文件提供了关于招募、吸引和培训参与者与确保所收集数据的高价值之间的紧张关系的指导和最佳做法。此外，研讨会还提供了有关如何提高和量化数据质量的指导，因为没有既定的程序来校准这种新型仪器，我们称之为公民科学。研讨会/讲习班和由此产生的论文提出了公民科学活动在生物多样性科学中的突出地位，并阐明了生物多样性信息学新标准的必要性。这项工作起草了建议，以满足公民科学生物多样性数据的独特需求，例如需要纳入通用名称标准，以及关于调查方法和分析技术的元数据，以促进公民科学项目的数据再利用。公民科学计划越来越多地用于正式的K-16和非正式的科学教育环境，扩大了人们从事真正科学的机会，提高了科学素养和对当地环境问题的认识。由此产生的建议和最佳实践与新的公民科学联盟组织及其最近成立的技术委员会分享。这些信息可以指导公民科学项目的设计者和项目经理，他们希望提高他们产生的数据的科学质量。我们的活动启动了生物多样性信息标准（TWDG）和公民科学联盟之间的伙伴关系，可以支持公民科学的生物多样性标准制定。