ITR/IM: An Internet Environment for BioDiversity Survey Collaboration and Verification

生态学和生物多样性研究的许多实地数据都使用了从数百名（主要是新手）合作者那里收集的数据。为了解决分布式智能、现场支持、移动计算、远程培训、数据质量和跨时空信息协调等问题，并提供实时专家反馈，将开发一个生物多样性协作环境（BDCE）。信息技术可以从根本上改变我们理解世界的方式和科学研究的方式。如果仔细发展和整合信息技术，科学可以取得实质性的进步。该系统将集成协作、馆藏开发、信息检索以及信息创建和管理。该技术的一个关键组成部分是开发软件代理，它将分析调查成员的需求、同一地点的先前调查、博物馆记录和其他资源，以创建一个定制的数字支持材料集合，这些材料可以放在磁盘上并带到现场，从而克服带宽问题。DBCE将在伊利诺斯州自然资源部正在进行的一个项目框架内开发，该项目通过在伊利诺斯州的数百个调查中使用DBCE来增加研究的影响。这主要是志愿者的努力，包括高中生，为了收集数据。对学生和其他非科学家的教育提供了重大影响，超越了智能设备的信息技术影响。

Much field data for ecology and biodiversity studies uses data collected from hundreds of mostly novice collaborators. In order to address the issues of distributed intelligence, field support, mobile computing, remote training, data quality and coordination of information across time and space, with real-time expert feedback, a BioDiversity Collaboration Environment (BDCE) will be developed.Information technology could fundamentally change the way we understand the world and the way science in done. Substantial improvements in science can be made if the information technology is carefully developed and integrated. The system will integrate collaboration, collection development, information retrieval, and information creation and management. A key component of the technology is the development of software agents that will analyze the needs of survey members, prior surveys of the same site, museum record and other resources to create a customized collection of digital support material that can be put on disk and taken to the field, thereby overcoming bandwidth problems. The DBCE will be developed within the framework of a project being conducted by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, which increases the impact of the research by it use in hundreds of surveys across Illinois. This is a largely volunteer effort, including high school students, for the data collection. The education to students and other non-scientists provides significant impact, beyond the information technology impact of smart devices.