Mechanisms for data quality and validation in citizen science

Proceedings - 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, eScienceW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 14-19

  Wiggins, Andrea ^a   Newman, Greg ^b   Stevenson, Robert D ^c   Crowston, Kevin ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; data quality; data validation

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DATA QUALITY; DATA VALIDATION; DIRECT EXPERIENCE; PROJECT DESIGNS; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SURVEY DATA;

SURVEYS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 84856964075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScienceW.2011.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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