Citizen Science/Crowdsourcing Tools for Digitization: Difference between revisions

'''Workflow Procedures, Data Management and Visualization'''

• [http://www.apiaryproject.org/ Apiary] - open source web application for extraction of specimen data from herbarium sheet images.<br>“The University of North Texas’ [http://www.txcdk.unt.edu/ Texas Center for Digital Knowledge] (TxCDK) and the [http://www.brit.org/ Botanical Research Institute of Texas] (BRIT) are conducting fundamental research with the goal of identifying how human intelligence can be combined with machine processes for effective and efficient transformation of textual museum specimen label information into high-quality machine-processible parsed data… The results of this research will yield a new workflow model for effective and efficient label data transformation, correction, and enhancement that can be replicated, adapted, and transferred to herbaria and other natural history collections.”  

• [http://cartodb.com CartoDB ]<br>“Visualize and analyze geospatial data”  

• [https://www.dataone.org/software_tools_catalog DataOne Software Tools Catalog] <br>“The Software Tools database is the product of two NSF-funded Informatics Education Planning Workshops hosted by DataONE. The database provides a brief description of a wide range of tools that are recommended for use by scientists and students, as well as additional information and links to further resources. Users can access tools within the database by selecting keywords (under advanced search) or using free search.”  

•[http://www.dataone.org/best-practices DataOne Data Management Best Practices]  

“The DataONE Best Practices database provides individuals with recommendations on how to effectively work with their data through all stages of the data lifecycle. Users can access best practices within the database by either clicking on a stage of the lifecycle, selecting keywords (under advanced search) or using free search.”  

• [http://www.epicollect.net EpiCollect ]<br>“EpiCollect.net provides a web and mobile app for the generation of forms (questionnaires) and freely hosted project websites for data collection. Data are collected (including GPS and media) using multiple phones and all data can be viewed centrally (using Google Maps / tables / charts).”  

• [https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy FuzzyWuzzy] <br>“Fuzzy string matching in Python.”  

• [http://www.museum.tulane.edu/geolocate/community/default.html GEOLocate’s Collaborative Georeferencing ]<br>“The goal of this project is to provide a mechanism whereby groups of users can form communities to collaboratively georeference and verify a shared dataset. This collaborative georeferencing framework consists of two end-user components:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1. [https://www.museum.tulane.edu/geolocate/web/webcomgeoref.aspx The GEOLocate web-based collaborative client] for reviewing and editing community records.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2. [https://www.museum.tulane.edu/coge Web-based data management portal] for creating and managing communities, their respective users and data sources”  

• [http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/program/fieldscope/?ar_a=1 National Geographic FieldScope ]<br>“National Geographic FieldScope is a web-based platform to support our [http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/program/community-geography/?ar_a=1 Community Geography Initiative]. FieldScope is a mapping, analysis, and collaboration tool designed to support geographic investigations and engage citizen scientists in investigations of real-world issues—both in the classroom and in outdoor education settings.”  

• [http://opendatakit.org/ Open Data Kit ]<br>“Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set of tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1. [http://opendatakit.org/use/build/ Build] a data collection form or survey;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2. [http://opendatakit.org/use/collect/ Collect] the data on a mobile device and send it to a server; and<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;3. [http://opendatakit.org/use/aggregate/ Aggregate] the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats.”  

• [http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/taxamatch.htm Taxamatch] <br>“Fuzzy matching algorithm for genus and species scientific names”  

• [http://vizzuality.com/ Vizzuality] ([http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/ Citizen Science Alliance ]representatives)<br>“From data visualization to citizen science, it is all about stories that matter.”