Crowdsourcing the identification of organisms: A case-study of iSpot

Accurate species identification is fundamental to biodiversity science, but the natural history skills required for this are neglected in formal education at all levels. In this paper we describe how the web application ispotnature.org and its sister site ispot.org.za (collectively, “iSpot”) are hel...

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Autors principals: Jonathan Silvertown, Martin Harvey, Richard Greenwood, Mike Dodd, Jon Rosewell, Tony Rebelo, Janice Ansine, Kevin McConway
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Pensoft Publishers 2015-02-01
Col·lecció:ZooKeys
Accés en línia:http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=4633