After Heejun and I reached the agreement on our coding results, I went back to a several papers we coded to confirm a few quotes and data quality mechanisms with question marks, and then re-organized the coding results into two new documents as preparation for writing results in our paper. Continue reading Time to say goodbye to Notebooks – Week 9
During the official last week of the DataONE summer internship, I have focused on making agreements on Scopus paper coding results with Yurong and developing a paper draft. With regard to the coding scheme agreements, Yurong converted our previous paper-based coding results to project-based coding results. Among the projects we Continue reading Toward the end of the journey: coding scheme agreements – Week 9
The most exciting achievement of this week is that Heejun and I finally reached the agreement on our Scopus paper coding results. To be more specifically, we together reviewed our coding results for the 20 citizen science and VGI projects and their data quality mechanisms we identified from 56 papers, discussed the Continue reading Enjoying the happy collaboration: Reach a consensus on paper coding results – Week 8
This week I continue documenting data quality mechanisms by visiting and trying the first randomly chosen 100 citizen science projects‘ websites in the citizen science project list I compiled earlier. The initial findings include first, in terms of project discipline, it is similar to what we found among the papers searched Continue reading Documenting data quality mechanisms from citizen science project websites (2) – Week 7
During this week, I have carefully reviewed on how the eBird project has adopted and developed data quality mechanisms in its history. To do this, I have collected 25 papers and read them prudently. Among these papers, I have found 16 papers are relevant and describing quality assurance mechanisms in Continue reading Quality mechnism changes in the eBird project – Week 8
During this week, I have focused on searching and collecting the list of projects which are relevant to volunteered geographic information (VGI). It was pretty challenging to find any summarized list, probably because the term of VGI had been coined relatively recently in 2007. The VGI sites inventory on VGI-net, Continue reading Collecting the list of VGI-related projects and induce their relevant categories – week 7
Based on the academic papers collected from Scopus and the citizen science project list, my work for this week includes first, organizing paper coding results by creating a table containing the information that for each unique citizen science project, what data quality mechanisms this project adopted and what details of these mechanisms mentioned in Continue reading Documenting data quality mechanisms from citizen science project websites – Week 6
This week I first reviewed my first round coding results and rethought the data quality mechanisms, then finished created the first version of citizen science project list. My teammate Heejun and I coded the first round coding separately to test the objectivity of the data quality mechanisms and subjectivity of Continue reading Citizen science project list – Week 5
While collecting the corpus of relevant papers, we could search most papers with key phrases “Data Quality” and “Citizen Science” or “Volunteered Geographic Information”. The term of citizen science is mostly used in natural science-related fields such as biology, ornithology, and ecology, while volunteered geographic information (VGI) is mostly used Continue reading Difference between Citizen Science and VGI – Week 6
By the last week, I had completed the first round of coding for meta-analysis, and I reviewed the previous coding during this week. For the last two weeks, out team members have discussed the criteria of paper acceptance and mechanisms for data quality assurance. While reviewing the previous coding results, Continue reading Some analysis from the coding and new paper collection from Google Scholar – Week 5