digibird: on the fly collection integration using crowdsourcing
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‣ Crowdsourcing tasks are undertaken in isolation
‣ It takes time to collect data
‣ It demands continuous promotional effort
‣ It is challenging for institutions to incorporate the results of crowdsourcing into their existing infrastructure
Crowdsourcing Challenges
valorisation project
May 2016 to November 2016
DigiBird project
Chris Dijkshoorn Cristina Bucur Lora Aroyo
Maarten Brinkerink Sander Pietersen Saskia Scheltjens
‣ Every institution has its own system
‣ No visibility similar initiatives
DigiBird solution
‣ Create a hub
‣ Provide on the fly integration
‣ Use a shared vocabulary
Challenge 1: Crowdsourcing tasks are undertaken in isolation
Thesauri can bridge collection
IOC World Bird List
‣ 33,801 terms
‣ Structured using Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
‣ (Semi) persistent identifiers
Importance shared vocabulary
Data retrieval
Request formulation
Data integration
Response formulation
Query filter Merel
Request search Merel
Request parameter Turdus merula
Query concept ioc:Turdus_merula
DigiBird pipeline example: retrieve information about a blackbird
- ===
-
rec ===
dc:creator
creator ===
dc:creator
creator ===
dc:creator
JSON result list SPARQL result list SPARQL result list
Return JSON, JSON-LD, N-Quads or Turtle
JSON result list
‣ Crowdsourcing relies on voluntary contributions
‣ Unpredictable when people will contribute
How DigiBird helps
‣ Monitor progress
Challenge 2: It takes time to collect data
‣ Organise events
‣ Market initiatives
DigiBird solution
‣ Generate challenging tasks (2.0?)
Challenge 3: It demands continuous promotional effort
‣ Data siloes
‣ Trust in data
DigiBird solutions
‣ Provide a way to directly access data
‣ Different output formats
‣ Refine and review contributions (2.0?)
Challenge 4: It is challenging for institutions to incorporate the results of crowdsourcing into their existing infrastructure
Monitoring
Species view
Annotation wall
Source code is available
‣ https://github.com/rasvaan/digibird_api
‣ https://github.com/rasvaan/digibird_client
DigiBird website