CREAF

The activity aims to validate species names of the biodiversity observations coming from several citizen science platforms, such as Pl@ntNet or Artportalen; you can validate terrestrial or marine images, depending on your expertise!

 

Citizen observatories, such as Artportalen or Pl@ntNet, are platforms where volunteers update and identify all kinds of biodiversity images. Some of these observations are now available in Cos4Bio, a new online platform that integrates observations on biodiversity from various citizen science platforms. The aim of this platform is that you, as an expert (by learning or experience), get access to an enormous number of species observations, download all the data you are interested in and, when possible, contribute to validating species identifications in the same place to improve biodiversity data quality. Currently, some of the observations gathered in Cos4Bio have already been identified. Still, there is a need to double-check the species names to improve data quality and be able to use these data in scientific papers, national biodiversity data libraries, etc. Cos4Bio is a service developed by Bineo Consulting in the Cos4Cloud framework, a project of which CREAF is partner.