eBird: Curating Citizen Science Data for Use by Diverse Communities

In this paper we describe eBird, a highly successful citizen science project. With over 150,000 participants worldwide and an accumulation of over 140,000,000 bird observations globally in the last decade, eBird has evolved into a major tool for scientific investigations in diverse fields such as o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carl Lagoze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2014-05-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://129.215.67.233:80/ijdc/article/view/302