Assessing the quality and trustworthiness of citizen science data

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 454-466

  Hunter, Jane ^a   Alabri, Abdulmonem ^a   Van Ingen, Catharine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; data quality; trust metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DATA QUALITY; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; TECHNOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK; TRUST METRICS; WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL NETWORKINGS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 84874116984     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.2923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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