New EpiCollect* - Spatial Epidemiology · 2011. 2. 10. · EpiCollect* David*Aanensen*...
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EpiCollect
David Aanensen Department of Infec6ous Disease Epidemiology
Imperial College London
EpiCollect
• Background • Generic mobile data collec6on tool / web app.
• General uses
Background
• Use and development of web applica6ons for infec6ous disease epidemiology
• Molecular Epidemiology of Human and animal pathogens
Tracking Animal disease
Batrachochytrium dendroba1dis (Bd)
Tracking Animal disease
Bd-‐Maps
• Bd causing wide-‐spread die-‐offs and species declines
• Demands logical collec6on of incidence, loca6on and species distribu6on
http://www.bd-maps.net
• GPS – ‘loca6on aware’ • Cameras for s6lls or videos
• Keyboards for text entry • Data transfer to / from
central databases.
EpiCollect -‐ Smartphones for data collec6on
Aanensen et al (2009) PLoS ONE 4(9): e6968
Mobile phone app (Android and iPhone) and web applica6on for data visualisa6on.
hTp://www.epicollect.net
Aanensen et al (2009) PLoS ONE 4(9): e6968
• Ques6onnaires / mobile data collec6on of any nature.
• Any projects where centralising textual data along with GPS and / or photos from many different people, from many different places, would be useful.
hTp://www.epicollect.net
Create a Project website at EpiCollect.net
Design a form for data collec6on
Load Project into the EpiCollect mobile app and collect data, including GPS posi6on and photo
View data collected at your project website or on your phone (download, view on maps/charts, filter.)
hTp://www.epicollect.net
• Completely free and open source.
• demo
hTp://www.epicollect.net
Some projects people have set up
Archaeological dig sites
Replacing paper forms for linking and mapping areas of dig sites.
Dig sites across Europe
Pre – major building works
Street art*
• Categorised by type – eg posters, s6ckers, stencils etc.
*Disclaimer: probably not to be encouraged…
Animal Health surveillance in Kenya / Tanzania
Ongoing monitoring of: East Coast Fever; anthrax and rabies; FMD Gabriel Turasha (Vetaid Tanzania) Nick Short (RVC) and Niall Winters(IOE)
Maasai vets Carry out Disease Surveillance of 86,000 animals with Google Mobile phones
One Health -‐ SACIDS • Surveillance of human/ livestock /wildlife diseases.
• Resource Mapping
• No reliance on data networks for collec6on.
• Data can be backed up.
• Data can be sent to any server
• Simple XML descrip6on of project forms and for defini6on of server loca6ons.
XML project defini6on-‐ XForms <xform> <model>
<submission id="ahBlc" projectName=”FAOdemo” allowDownloadEdits="false" versionNumber="1.0"/> </model>
<input ref="name" required="true" 6tle="true"> <label>What is your name?</label> </input>
<select1 ref="sex" required="true" chart="pie"> <label>male or female?</label> <item> <label>male</label>
<value>male</value> </item> <item>
<label>female</label> <value>female</value> </item> </select1>
</xform>
XML project defini6on <xform> <model>
<submission id="ahBlc" projectName=“FAOdemo” allowDownloadEdits="false" versionNumber="1.0"/> </model>
<input ref="name" required="true" 6tle="true"> <label>What is your name?</label> </input>
<select1 ref="sex" required="true" chart="pie"> <label>male or female?</label> <item> <label>male</label>
<value>male</value> </item> <item>
<label>female</label> <value>female</value> </item> </select1>
</xform>
XML project defini6on <xform> <model>
<submission id="ahBlc" projectName=”FAOdemo” allowDownloadEdits="false" versionNumber="1.0"/> </model>
<input ref="name" required="true" 6tle="true"> <label>What is your name?</label> </input>
<select1 ref="sex" required="true" chart="pie"> <label>male or female?</label> <item> <label>male</label>
<value>male</value> </item> <item>
<label>female</label> <value>female</value> </item> </select1>
</xform>
Increasing project complexity
As well as text fields each form can also include one or more..
• <gps>
• <picture>
• <video>
• <sound>
• <barcode>
Acknowledgements
• Derek Huntley, Jon Evans, Chris Powell, Brian SpraT
• Bd: Dede Olsen, MaT Fisher
• SCI: Alan Fenwick • RVC: Nick Short IOE: Niall Winters VetAid: Gabriel Tarusha