Anecdata.org

Anecdata.org
Type of site
Citizen science web portal
Available inEnglish, Vietnamese, German, Romanian, Polish, Spanish
OwnerMDI Biological Laboratory
URLwww.anecdata.org
CommercialNo
Current statusOnline

Anecdata.org (often shortened to Anecdata) is a citizen science web portal developed by the Community Environmental Health Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.[1] Anecdata.org supports projects in the collection of observational data, primarily in environmental science, biology, and public health.[2] Anecdata was founded in 2014 to provide a data management system for the citizen science projects run by the Community Environmental Health Lab and has since expanded to include more than 200 projects, where more than 8,000 registered users have contributed over 30,000 images and more than 50,000 observations.[3] In addition to the desktop site, there is a corresponding mobile app that can be used to submit observations to existing projects.[3] Anecdata.org also acts as a data repository where data can be stored, discovered, and shared to other users.[4]

How Anecdata works
  1. ^ Broom, Dick (2 March 2018). "MDI Bio Lab spawning business ventures". The Ellsworth American. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  2. ^ Disney, Jane; Bailey, Cait; Farrell, Anna; Taylor, Ashley (2017). "Next Generation Citizen Science Using Anecdata.org". Maine Policy Review. 26 (2): 70–79. doi:10.53558/PHKW8135. ISSN 2643-959X. S2CID 158183463.
  3. ^ a b Bailey, Cait; Farrell, Anna; Purty, Turam; Taylor, Ashley; Disney, Jane (2021). "Development of Privacy Features on Anecdata.org, a Free Citizen Science Platform for Collecting Datasets for Climate Change and Related Projects". Frontiers in Climate. 3: 28. doi:10.3389/fclim.2021.620100. PMC 8444998. PMID 34541525.
  4. ^ Bailey, Cait; Disney, Jane; Farrell, Anna; Taylor, Ashley (October 2018). "Anecdata.org: Data collection with the power of the crowd". OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604652. ISBN 978-1-5386-4814-8. S2CID 57762393.