Public Participation Platforms
Public Participation Platforms
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iDigBio gathers information about public participation platforms to share with the natural history collections community, both as an online resource available to anyone, and as a reference specifically for participants in our Digitization Academy courses. We have asked representatives of each platform to respond to a survey containing a standard set of questions, which we believe can be helpful for potential new users comparing options. These surveys, as well as additional resources, are organized alphabetically below.
If you are a platform representative and wish to be added to this list, or to update the information here, please contact Erica Krimmel (ekrimmel@fsu.edu).
Die Herbonauten
Die Herbonauten is a herbarium specimen transcription platform addressing German speaking Citizen Scientists with a strong interest in botany and natural history in general.
[ 2021 Survey]
FromThePage
FromThePage focuses on textual transcription, OCR correction and metadata description of digitized documents.
[ 2021 Survey]
GEOLocate CoGe
GEOLocate CoGe (Collaborative Georeferencing Platform) is designed to facilitate determining geospatial attributes where biological collections have been made.
[ 2021 Survey]
Les Herbonautes
Notes from Nature
Our primary data providers are researchers and museums interested in transcription or classification of specimen images. The vast majority of our partners are from North America, but we are very interested in working with individuals or collections from other areas of the world.
[www.notesfromnature.org/ Website]
[ 2021 Survey]
Symbiota
Symbiota is an open-source software for managing and mobilizing biodiversity data. It is both a robust content management system (CMS) and a tool for biodiversity data exploration. As a CMS, Symbiota is specifically designed toward efficient, collaborative digitization with features including data entry from label images, data harvesting from specimen duplicates, batch georeferencing (even across collections), data validation and cleaning, generating progress reports, and additional tools. As a data exploration tool, Symbiota includes species inventories, interactive identification keys, integrated specimen and field images, taxonomic information, species distribution maps, and taxonomic descriptions.
[ 2021 Survey]
Zooniverse
Since the launch of its first project in 2007, Zooniverse has become a core part of the research infrastructure landscape. For research teams with large numbers of images, audio clips, or video files that need tagging, annotating, marking and/or transcribing, crowdsourcing the effort through Zooniverse provides a unique and effective solution to unlocking the large datasets that characterize our modern research landscape. With over 2 million participants worldwide in over 80 active projects, Zooniverse also provides a transformative tool for meaningfully engaging the public in real research and discovery.
[ 2021 Survey]