I-Corps: Citizen science technology platform

I-Corps：公民科学技术平台

• 批准号: 1817612
• 负责人: Gregory Newman
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1817612&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Citizen; science; technology; platform

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project capitalizes on the current growth in citizen science to explore the commercial potential of a technological platform that streamlines data capture, collection, integration, hosting, visualization, analysis, and sharing for citizen science projects. Although widely popular, the tasks necessary to do citizen science well are onerous, complex, and frustrating leading to inefficiencies, lost time, and added expense. Project managers need tools that help them and their volunteers execute research in a fast, easy, and cost effective method. They need to easily tailor the governance of members and data and be able to quickly recruit, communicate with, and oversee members. They need data collection tools flexible enough to support their specific and evolving needs; they need data to be high quality, secure, backed up, curated, and accessible all in a centralized place. They need to easily detect outliers, be able to fix errors, upload data, create reports, and efficiently automate the sharing and delivery of data to stakeholders.This I-Corps project explores the market need for an online platform to realize the full potential of citizen science. Citizen science engages the public in scientific research and is growing rapidly. Currently, thousands of citizen science projects engage millions of participants. However, there is a disconnect between software features and project needs. Current projects remain fraught with inefficiencies and software and data systems are ad hoc and disjointed. This results in software and data silos. Current solutions limit observations to single points, lack support for rigorous scientific experimentation and analysis, and cannot deliver data to consumers in a readily usable format. This platform streamlines data collection and sharing through flexible, fully customizable, and synchronized real-time web and mobile applications. It improves project data management, analysis, and visualization. It amplifies the impacts of projects by increasing awareness, collaboration, and sharing across projects.

该 I-Corps 项目具有更广泛的影响/商业潜力，利用当前公民科学的增长来探索技术平台的商业潜力，该平台可简化公民科学项目的数据捕获、收集、集成、托管、可视化、分析和共享。虽然公众科学广受欢迎，但做好公众科学所需的任务却是繁重、复杂且令人沮丧的，导致效率低下、时间损失和费用增加。项目经理需要一些工具来帮助他们和他们的志愿者以快速、简单且具有成本效益的方法执行研究。他们需要轻松定制会员和数据的治理，并能够快速招募会员、与会员沟通和监督会员。他们需要足够灵活的数据收集工具来支持他们特定的和不断变化的需求；他们需要高质量、安全、备份、管理且可在集中位置访问的数据。他们需要轻松检测异常值、能够修复错误、上传数据、创建报告，并高效地自动向利益相关者共享和交付数据。这个 I-Corps 项目探索了市场对在线平台的需求，以充分发挥公民科学。公民科学让公众参与科学研究，并且正在迅速发展。目前，数千个公民科学项目吸引了数百万参与者。然而，软件功能和项目需求之间存在脱节。当前的项目仍然效率低下，软件和数据系统是临时的且脱节的。 这会导致软件和数据孤岛。当前的解决方案将观察限制在单点，缺乏对严格的科学实验和分析的支持，并且无法以易于使用的格式向消费者提供数据。该平台通过灵活、完全可定制且同步的实时网络和移动应用程序简化了数据收集和共享。 它改进了项目数据管理、分析和可视化。 它通过提高项目间的意识、协作和共享来扩大项目的影响。