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| Subject: | GISList: Automatic data recording |
| Date: |
06/17/2003 11:35:01 AM |
| From: |
John Lee |
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Dear all,
I work with local UK Biological Records Centres, in collation spatial
ecological data. These Centres up-date, validate, develop and manage
databases of habitats, species and sites across a county or region. At the
moment, the Centres receive their records largely from dedicated amateurs
who make observations as they walk in the countryside and send these to data
curators by 'old-style' post. The records are input manually to a database,
which occupies a large part of the curators’ time and effort, as well as
being a potential source of errors.
I would like to reduce the amount of re-keying and would like to see a
system for semi-/completely automated data entry direct to the database.
So, I envisage the following 4 scenarios:
1. records sent by post, data entry could be speeded up with a small flatbed
scanner, optical-character recognition software and appropriate cut and
paste techniques.
2. data collectors could send their data by telephone using touch-tone
dialling and appropriate species lists.
3. Wireless transmission of data is possible from laptops and handheld
devices running cheap, dedicated software.
4. Internet-based forms could deliver data direct to the database.
I have used GIS for a while now and I think that all of this is achievable
without massive financial investment.
I wonder if anyone out there knows of something similar going on with these
types of data - perhaps in North America?
Many thanks
John
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Dr. John Lee
Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics
Spatial Ecology & Landuse Unit (SELU)
School of Biological and Molecular Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Campus
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
OX3 0BP
United Kingdom
Tel. (+44)(0)1865 483269
Fax. (+44)(0)1865 483242
Email. jlee@brookes.ac.uk
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