„On the trail of B. Pajiedaitė“ project:
using EpiCollect+ smartphone app to track collection sites
Eglė Marija Ramanauskaitė, Citizen Science reseacher
MSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology & Education Science

Entire project data on one shared map!
• No paper maps
• No GPS
• No camera (although you can
have one!)
• No paper note taking or
drawing (shame…  )

Just one smartphone app.
• Takes coordinates &
elevation
• Date & time
• Can add photo & other
media
• Can answer form questions
(of own design)
• Add comments

• Sends to central server
• Visualize entries on the map / add
more data later

Use cases:
Source: http://bit.ly/28A7Of6

http://www.missionrabies.com/
Use cases:
Source: http://bit.ly/28A7Of6

My projects (Tanzania):
Crowd2Map Tanzania – gathering local knowledge for a map of rural areas

My projects (Lithuania):
• Biosynthetic diversity of Lithuanian lichens + pollution map
• Invasive species
• Bryozoa …

[demo of “bryozoa” project]
http://plus.epicollect.net/bryozoa

Let’s find some bryozoa!!
Detailed EpiCollect+ instructions for the project: http://bit.ly/bryozoa-epicollect
Useful links:
(in Lithuanian) Lietuviškas straipsnis apie EpiCollect panaudojimą ir senosios versijos instrukcijos: http://bit.ly/jaunasis-tyrejas
Article about EpiCollect+: http://www.technology.org/2014/09/03/epicollect-plus-smart-field-science-app-gets-smarter/
Poster at ECSA citizen science conference, “Citizen Science and Biohacking – a Powerful Combination in STEM” covering the bryozoa project:
http://www.slideshare.net/seplute/citizen-science-biohacking-in-stem-ecsa2016-poster
Original papers about EpiCollect and EpiCollect+:
Aanensen, D. M., Huntley, D. M., Feil, E. J., & Spratt, B. G. (2009). EpiCollect: linking smartphones to web applications for epidemiology, ecology and
community data collection. PloS one, 4(9), e6968.
Aanensen, D. M., Huntley, D. M., Menegazzo, M., Powell, C. I., & Spratt, B. G. (2014). EpiCollect+: linking smartphones to web applications for complex
data collection projects. F1000Research, 3.
Contact me!
emramanauskaite@gmail.com
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