Emergent filters: Automated data verification in a large-scale citizen science project

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 20-27

  Kelling, Steve ^a   Yu, Jun ^b   Gerbracht, Jeff ^a   Wong, Weng Keen ^b  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; data quality; data base filters; machine learning; species occurrence

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DATA; AUTOMATED PROCESS; CITIZEN-SCIENCE; DATA QUALITY; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MACHINE-LEARNING; OBSERVER VARIABILITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TWO-STEP PROCESS;

AUTOMATION; STATISTICS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863055315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScienceW.2011.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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