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Data Quality or Quantity:Is a Trade-Off Necessary in Citizen Science?

Dr Poppy Lakeman-Fraser

Citizen Science and OPen Air Laboratories

• National programme with 706, 752 beneficiaries (15% of these were ‘hard to reach communities’), >45 000 survey

submissions.

Vision: to inspire a new generation of nature-lovers by getting people to explore, study and protect their local environment

• Bugs Count developed by the NHM: 840 000 invertebrates counted since June 2011.

Verification & Quality Control

• Methods of quality control and data validation in CS are under development.

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The Bugs Count “Species Quest”

Taxonomic Accuracy QuantificationAKA “Identification Challenge”!

Quality or Quantity ?

..BOTH!• Citizen science can serve as an

effective resource to generate large quantities of rigorous data.

Please feel free to contact me: Poppy Lakeman-Fraser

p.lakeman-fraser@nhm.ac.uk

THANK YOU

• In addition, this research has found that it is possible to communicate engaging scientific messages, to diverse audiences, and in a short time frame.

…I’ll leave it up to you to decide if I achieved that with this talk….