Abstract

1. Organic Data Curation: There are many datasets in geosciences that have been collected over the years. Even if the datasets are available in centralized repositories, they rarely have metadata. Organizing and describing these datasets are great candidate tasks for crowdsourcing. We are investigating how to form communities that can create metadata for repositories that contain thousands of scientific datasets. We are developing an organic data curation framework that extends semantic wikis so that the contributors can dynamically define new metadata attributes on the fly, and to use those attributes to describe the properties of datasets. We are incorporating in our framework the incentives and rewards that work best for scientific researchers and citizen volunteers to contribute to these tasks.
2. Organic Data Science: According to some estimates, 85% of geosciences data is often kept by individual investigators …

Date

December 8, 2025

Authors

Yolanda Gil

Journal

Crowdsourcing and the Semantic Web

Pages

36