IBIN Mobile App: Count for Biodiversity

摘要

It is argued that a large fraction of species is facing the threat of extinction without any accurate estimation of how many of them are discovered. With the advantage of information and communication technology and crowdsourcing, a mobile application is designed and developed based on the idea of user-generated content, web-based crowdsourcing application by integrating the location as a parameter and android mobile devices as a small effort for increasing the digitized inventory of country's bioresources. This mobile application is developed for the Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN) to integrate the end user data along with the bioresource database. IBIN is a digitized inventory of the biological resources of India that serves as a common platform to access spatial and non-spatial information about the bioresources and data holders can host their data through this gateway with full privileges. The IBIN mobile application is based on the crowdsourcing approach, to collect data on plant, animal, marine, spatial distribution and microbial resources from a large group of crowd to increase the repository of IBIN database which will helps us in the conservation of nature. The biggest advantage of using crowdsourcing is timely data integration at a very low cost but may suffer in data quality. For data verification, an information system is developed through which the experts will verify the crowdsourced data and then, it is available for the users to visualize through the IBIN portal. This will surely increase the datasets available under the IBIN repository.