This iNaturalist Young People verifiable data readme.txt file was generated on 2021-07-08 by Maria Aristeidou



GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Compiled_data_iNaturalist young people

2. Author Information
	A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
		Name: Maria Aristeidou
		Institution: The Open University
		Address: Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
		Email: maria.aristeidou@open.ac.uk

	B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
		Name: Christothea Herodotou
		Institution: The Open University
		Address: Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
		Email: christothea.herodotou@open.ac.uk

3. Date of data collection : data collected range between June 2013 and October 2020

4. Geographic location of data collection : Online via the iNaturalist export tool: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export  

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: 
The LEARN CitSci is supported by Wellcome Trust and ESRC (grant number 206202/Z/17/Z) and the National Science Foundation (grant number 1647276).


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC BY 4.0

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: TBC

3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: N/A

4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: 

5. Was data derived from another source? yes
	A. If yes, list source(s): the bioblitzes for young people at the CAS Academy (San Francisco) and the Natural History Museum of LA County helped us identify young people in the dataset.

6. Recommended citation for this dataset: 
Aristeidou, Maria (2021): iNaturalist Young People verifiable data. The Open University. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.rd.14932131 


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List: 
Compiled data_iNaturalist_young people.CSV
Compiled data_iNaturalist_young people.SAV

2. Relationship between files, if important: Same dataset, different formats

3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: N/A

4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset?: YES (CSV and SAV)


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
The data were collected via the export tool https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export. Young people were identified via bioblitzes for young people at the CAS Academy (San Francisco) and the Natural History Museum of LA County. Also via Twitter recruitment. 

2. Methods for processing the data: 
Submitted data are a combination of raw data and of metrics applied to the raw data. 

3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: 
N/A

4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: N/A

5. Environmental/experimental conditions: N/A

6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: Confirmation that they belong to young people aged 5-19. 

7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 
Maria Aristeidou, The Open University, UK
Annie Miller, CAS ACADEMY, CA, USA


DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Compiled data_iNaturaalist_Young People 


1. Number of variables: 31

2. Number of cases/rows: 249

3. Variable List: 
12 organism variables: number of contributions for each organism
3 background variables: gender, age, and recruitment method
7 raw data variables: first and last day on the platform, data download date, data quality of contribution (casual, needs ID, research grade), total contributions
11 metrics/variables: calculation of days linked, active days, potential active days, relative activity duration, activity ratio, research grade ratio, days (SD) among contributions, daily contribution ratio. 


4. Missing data codes: 
0 for Nominal
-422 for Scale

5. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: N/A