Quality is a verb: The operationalization of data quality in a citizen science community

WikiSym 2011 Conference Proceedings - 7th Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-38

  Sheppard, S Andrew ^a   Terveen, Loren ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; community based monitoring; data quality

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING; DATA COLLECTION; DATA QUALITY; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS; EDUCATIONAL GOALS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; MONITORING PROGRAMS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; QUALITY OF DATA; RED RIVER BASIN; STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES;

QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVERS; WATCHES;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 80054790585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038558.2038565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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