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Citizen science and species occurrence
data in Europe - key success factors
Nils Valland, NBIC November 27th 2014
Sorbus aucuparia L., 1753 Foto: Nils Valland CC BY
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CS and species occurrence in Europe • Conservative estimated 150
portals/systems/services, probably more
• Conservative estimated 210-250 mill. european records, probably more
• Counted 60 portals/systems/services containing data for Europe
• Counted 207,7 mill. European records
• 21 of these 60 contain > 1 mill. records
• 8 of the 60 contain > 10 mill. records
• Counted 92,5 mill. records from these 207,7 in GBIF
Mill. records species occurrence data from CS sources estimated, counted and freely available in Europe
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Key success factors • Basic knowledge and motivation
• No anonymous sightings
• Report immediately – quality control afterwords
• Allow community members to contribute voluntarily in quality feedback and confirmation (crowd sourcing)
• Effective user interface for reporting sightings
• Mobile devices
• Rich services for the users (my sightings, statistics, my digital field diary)
• Organized second line validation on prioritized species
• Close cooperation between governmental service providers and national NGOs
• Sightings are free to use and licensed under CC BY 4.0. (except pictures), shared in GBIF
• Effective distribution through national species map portals together with data from scientific sources
• The sightings make a difference in spatial and environmental management
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Key success factors
Quantity Quality
Acessability
Not anonymous
Informal voluntarily community quality
control
Visibility, report first -
quality control second
Validation on priority species
Effective user interface
Rich user services
Cooperation governmental
institutions and NGOs
Open and licensed
Effective data distribution
Environmental impact
Basic knowledge and motivation
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Species Observation System
(Artsobservasjoner) - Citizen Science • The largest species diversity mobilization in Norway, by amateur naturalists
• NBIC in cooperation with 5 Norwegian NGO’s, 150 validators
• About 9 000 persons have so far contributed with 11,6 mill. observations in the course of 6 ½ years, more than 14 000 species are recorded
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Recommendations for EUBON
• Together with GBIF, approach and negotiate with current reluctant system owners to share data with open licences (CC BY 4.0) – Focus on the big ones who get public funding
– Focus on countries/european regions with gaps in data availability
• Share efficient available portals/systems/services with institutions collaborating with naturalist NGOs under the prerequisite to share data with open licenses – Make a list of available systems
– Focus on countries/european regions with data gaps and no/small CS systems
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Thank you for your attention!