Establishing a canonical procedure for collecting biodiversity information from citizen scientists using mobile phones and a self-identification system

我们为公民科学家制定了一套独特的动物调查方案。当参与者通过电子邮件发送动物照片时，服务器会自动提取日期、参与者的姓名和位置。与这种自动数据收集程序相结合，议定书中纳入了一个自我识别系统，以防止初学者经常犯的错误识别。利用该方案，我们在多个公共机构开展了蜻蜓观察教育活动。该自我识别系统由形状、颜色和生态信息三个子系统组成。虽然颜色子系统和形状子系统的效果都不理想，但颜色子系统和生态信息子系统的结合有可能提高公民调查的精度。

We constructed a unique animal survey protocol for the citizen's scientist. The server automatically extracts the date, the name of the participant, the position when a participant sends a photo of animals via email. In combination with this automated data collection procedure, a self-identification system was incorporated into the protocol to prevent misidentifications which are often made by beginners. Using the protocol we conducted educational events of dragonfly observation in several public institutes.The self-identification system had three components, the shape, the color and the ecological information subsystems. Though either the color or the shape subsystem worked poorly, the combination of the color subsystem and the ecological information subsystem had a potential to improve the precision of the citizen's survey.