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Encyclopedia of LifeMotivating Public Enthusiasts and Expert Scientists to Document the
World’s Species
Cynthia Parr, Dana Rotman, Jenny Preece, Derek Hansen, Kezee Procita, Jen Hammock
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Imagine an electronic page for eachspecies of organism on Earth.
Encyclopedia of Lifehttp://www.eol.org
Version 2Coming in Fall 2011!
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Photo: Cornell Univ.
Photo: Mary Keim
NA Butterfly AssociationFourth of July Count
Audubon Christmas Bird Count
We need citizen science
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Scientific DatabasesScientific Journals Curating
CommentingTagging eol.org
EOL is a content curation community
Aggregate
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Content curation communities face challenges
Information integration
Social integration
photo by SimonWhitaker
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Rotman, Procita, Hansen, Parr, Preece, forthcoming
"Scientists often have an aversion to what nonscientists say about science” (Salk, 1986)
Collaboration is based on:• Shared vocabulary, practices, and meanings
• Mutual recognition of knowledge, competency, and prestige
• Motivation to collaborate
Scientists (n=280) and volunteers (n=12) told us
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http://xkcd.com/386/
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Institutional obligations
Citable online work
Accurate info on internet
Advertise my expertise
Highlight my research
Meet needs of my project
Supervising someone else
n=161 Most importantLeast important
Why scientists want to curate EOL
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Biotracker: research questions
What are the most effective strategies for motivating enthusiasts and experts to voluntarilycontribute and collaborate?
How can a socially intelligent system be used todirect human effort and expertise to the most valuable collection and classification tasks?
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Participation in social activities stems from personal and collective reasons
Egoism
Collectivism
Altruism
Principalism
Batson, Ahmad, Tsang, 2002
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What motivates scientists and volunteers?
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Motivational model for volunteer involvement
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• Content curation communities are an emerging phenomenon
With both information and social integration challenges
• A more sophisticated model of volunteerism highlights key places and ways to KEEP volunteers coming back
• Future research will involve interventions and games to test possible solutions (see www.biotrackers.net)
• Become part of the EOL community at eol.org!
Take home messages
Biotracker and EOL funding from: National Science Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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