A flexible database-centric platform for citizen science data capture

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 39-44

  Ellul, Claire ^a   Francis, Louise ^a   Haklay, Mordechai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen Science; Community Science; Google Maps; Participatory GeoWeb

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMMUNITY SCIENCE; DATA COLLECTION; DATA FEED; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GOOGLE MAPS; MULTIPLE DEVICES; MULTIPLE SELECTION; NEW PROJECTS; ONLINE DATA; PARTICIPATORY GEOWEB; PROJECT REQUIREMENT; SPATIAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON; URBAN NOISE; USER NEED;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; MOBILE DEVICES; WEBSITES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84856966315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScienceW.2011.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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