I am currently working on the OakMapper project that aims to enable citizen science using the web and mobile phone, which has a very similar approach as EpiCollect. OakMapper Mobile is built for iPhone and is now in AppStore. Check it out. I hope to try out EpiCollect with a Android phone one of these days.
A mobile phone application will help professional and “citizen” scientists collect and analyse data from “in the field”, anywhere in the world.
The EpiCollect software collates data from certain mobiles – on topics such as disease spread or the occurrence of rare species – in a web-based database.
The data is statistically analysed and plotted on maps that are instantly available to those same phones.
The approach is outlined in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.
The software has been developed for so-called smartphones that run Google’s Android open-source operating system.
via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Mobile app sees science go global.
