Data Management CDI Citizen Science Workshop Sep 12, 2012 Derek Masaki USGS CSAS Eco-Science Synthesis National Geospatial Program

Audience Participation: SMS (707) Create an observation – include species, location, date/time

White House Digital Strategy Techcrunch – Disrupt NYC "We want to disrupt the U.S. Government and we want your help” -Todd Park (Federal CTO)

Strategy - Five Areas Driving Government IT Priorities Open data will be the new default Anyway, anytime on any device Everything should be an API Make government data social Change the meaning of social participation

Embrace Change – Explore Disruptive Technology Fight Misconceptions: Social/Volunteered Information Is Inferior Encylopedia Brittanica Stops Paper Publication (65k entries) Wikipedia (3.5m entries) Google Buys Frommers for $20mn– Yelp market cap $1bln Online Information Can’t Be Trusted Wikipedia has similar error rate to published counterparts (2005) More Americans get news online than from printed sources (2011) Who Would Read a Book on an iPhone

Open Data – Everything is an API Stop Hoarding Data: The crowd will make it a superior product and find better uses Google Maps base data source (TIGER US Census Bureau) Improvements through millions of edits, ground truthing, image algorithms USGS is great at scientific data Really poor at enterprise software development

Change Social Participation – Empower the Crowd Power to the People: How many scientists do you have? USGS ~10,000 employees in 400 locations There are ~55million K12 students in 100k public schools

Embrace Change – Explore Disruptive Technology Handling Massive Participation – Volunteer County Network 3,000 US Counties 25 schools per county Each school posts four records per week Every month generating 1.2million data points

Data System Framework Service API Derived Data Index Curated Data Workflow Processing REST HTML SOAP Dataset Registry Source Data Data catalog and registry process. New data sets loaded, metadata created, data sets registered in system. Data processing engine, R script, Matlab, Kepler. Output from data processes (visual, geospatial, statistical information) External application interface, web (HTML) and programmatic (REST, SOAP) DATA EXTRACT and CATALOGDATA PROCESSDATA DELIVERY

Technical Training – Invest In Capacity

Citizen Science – Build Monitoring Networks Marine Survey Kauai Algae Restoration Coastal Dune Restoration Waiehu, Maui

Vision – Biodiversity Monitoring Network Think Big – Data Management – Human Management Coordinate a Volunteer Network of 10,000 Conduct a Biodiversity Survey of Every US County Generate 1million Observation Records Next Year Develop a Mobile Biological Observation Form Standard Implement a Volunteer/Crowdsource Info Workflow Open the Data Resource – Create a Service API

MAHALO!