Assessing data quality in citizen science

Margaret Kosmala, Andrea Wiggins, Alexandra Swanson, Brooke Simmons — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:00:29 +0000

Abstract: Ecological and environmental citizen-science projects have enormous potential to advance scientific knowledge, influence policy, and guide resource management by producing datasets that would otherwise be infeasible to generate. However, this potential can only be realized if the datasets are of high quality. While scientists are often skeptical of the ability of unpaid volunteers to...

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Assessing data quality in citizen science