NDLI: EcoPod: a mobile tool for community based biodiversity collection building

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yu, Y.Y. Stamberger, J.A. Manoharan, Aswath Paepcke, A.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Stanford Univ., CA (Yu, Y.Y.)
Abstract	Biological studies rely heavily on large collections of species observations. All of these collections cannot be compiled by biology professionals alone. Skilled amateurs can assist by contributing observations they make in the field. The challenge with such contributions is their potentially questionable quality. We present our PDA-based application EcoPod, which replaces traditional paper field guides with a mobile computing platform. EcoPod aims both to increase the efficiency of the identification process and its reliability. The application solicits as little information from the user as possible. At the same time it places no restrictions on the sequencing of the identification process. This approach is to make our solution attractive to both skilled amateurs and professionals. The tool creates a record of the identification process, thereby providing an audit trail for quality assurance. EcoPod's user interface driver computes information gain over identification metadata to maximize screen utilization. The tool ingests SDD, an international standard for XML datasets that describe organisms
Starting Page	244
Ending Page	253
File Size	547669
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1595933549
DOI	10.1145/1141753.1141807
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-06-11
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Biodiversity Organisms Computer science Mobile computing User interfaces Biology computing Personal digital assistants Quality assurance Computer interfaces XML data collection and dissemination PDA platform SDD biodiversity biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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