WGP Observation Interface
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The document discusses building a collaborative and participative biodiversity portal. It proposes crowd-sourcing biodiversity information by allowing users to create observations with location and species data. These observations would then be validated by other users and experts to enrich species pages and maps. The portal would include modules for species pages, maps, checklists, and observations. Data would be made openly accessible under Creative Commons licenses to build social networks and contribute to conservation science. Social groups would allow different levels of control over membership, postings, and validation. The goal is to harness collective intelligence and aggregate knowledge to better understand biodiversity.
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WGP Observation Interface
- 1. Building a Collaborative Participative Portal: http://thewesternghats.in http://indiabiodiversity.org August 2012
- 2. Questions to Explore • Is biodiversity information important and should it be public? • Biodiversity and conservation information is an essential social good and should be widely, publicly, and freely available over the internet • What is a structure to organize biodiversity information? • Biodiversity and ecosystem data are both geo-referenced and species-referenced. Thus, map-based systems are ideal for biodiversity informatics • How do we aggregate and publish biodiversity information? • Biodiversity informatics should harness collective intelligence, exploit the Long Tail, and aggregate the wisdom of the crowd • Our experiments, experiences and the way forward? • Large scale participation and contribution is key!! But How??
- 3. Biodiversity Portal Modules • The Species Pages: One page for species; carefully curated, standards compliant • Map Module: Spatial distributions of biodiversity and its correlates; interactive and queries; downloadable • Checklist Module: List of species of biodiversity rich areas
- 4. Data Policy • Open access to information • Information on Creative Commons License • Choice of Creative Commons Licenses • Clear attribution and credits • Complete transparency and trust
- 6. Observation Module • Crowd-source biodiversity information • Stand up and contribute to conservation • Build social networks for conservation • Contribute to science
- 7. Life of an Observation • User creates an Observation with media, location, species call and comments • Others agree with species call, make species call, add comments and flag • Curators use observation and notes to enrich species pages • Over time observations aggregate to enrich distributions of species, etc.
- 11. Social Groups in Conservation
- 12. Groups Structure • Assumptions • Social networks operate in tight groups • Well knit social groups share and exchange better • Social groups like to retain individuality and identity • Groups Structure with • Groups founders • Group experts • Groups members • Group Followers • All others
- 13. Group Function • Post Observations • Activity Feed • Comment and conversation • Validate and Moderate • Include Species pages and Map Layers • Share documents • … and more … events, voting, mail…
- 14. Type Join Posting Validation Only founders and Highly Controlled Members decided Only founders and experts can Groups by Founders experts can post validate Members can Medium Members have Members can invite other Controlled Groups limited postings validate members Everybody can Everybody can Open Groups Any user can join post validate
- 15. Roles Membership Postings Validations Founders X X X Experts X X X Members X X Followers All Others X
- 16. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- The data accumulated on public access sites will be aggregated and will over time be a most important resource for reasearch and understanding of patterns of biodiversity and will help conservation.
- While SA, England, and Sweden have robust and active sites for observation postings, we are just about fledging. In this area. Over two months SA ispot has thousands of postings, while India is just picking up. What is it that people are looking for.