Advantages and Drawbacks of Open-Ended, Use-Agnostic Citizen Science Data Collection: A Case Study

Advantages and Drawbacks of Open-Ended, Use-Agnostic Citizen Science Data Collection: A Case Study

Citizen science projects that collect natural history observations often do not have an underlying research question in mind. Thus, data generated from such projects can be considered “use-agnostic.” Nevertheless, such projects can yield important insights about species distributions. Many of these...

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Main Authors: Yolanda F. Wiersma, Tom Clenche, Mardon Erbland, Gisela Wachinger, Roman Lukyanenko, Jeffrey Parsons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2024-02-01
Series:Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Subjects:
citizen science
data quality
information systems
natural history
species distributions
taxonomy
wildlife
Online Access:https://account.theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/index.php/up-j-cstp/article/view/676

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