Johnson, T.F. orcid.org/0000-0002-6363-1825, Cornford, R., Dove, S. et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Achieving a real‐time online monitoring system for conservation culturomics. Conservation Biology, 37 (4). e14096. ISSN 0888-8892
Abstract
Environmental monitoring is increasingly shifting toward a set of systems that describe changes in real time. In ecology specifically, a series of challenges have prevented the rollout of real-time monitoring for features such as biodiversity change or ecosystem service provision. Conservation culturomics, a field concerned with interactions between people and nature, is well placed to demonstrate how monitoring might move toward a network of real-time platforms, given its existence exclusively in the digital realm. We examined a set of considerations associated with the development of real-time monitoring platforms for conservation culturomics and introduce a near real-time platform for the Species Awareness Index, a global index of changing biodiversity awareness derived from the rate of change in page views for species on Wikipedia. This platform will update automatically each month, operating in near real time (https://joemillard.shinyapps.io/Real_time_SAI/). There are plans to make the underlying data queryable via an application programing interface independent of the platform. The real-time Species Awareness Index will represent the first real-time and entirely automated conservation culturomic platform and one of the first real-time platforms in the discipline of ecology. Real-time monitoring for culturomics can provide insight into human–nature interactions as they play out in the physical realm and provide a framework for the development of real-time monitoring in ecology. Real-time monitoring metrics can be processed on private virtual machines and hosted on publicly available cloud services. Conservation now needs an online, real-time observatory that can evolve with the structure of the web.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Species Awareness Index; Wikipedia; automated monitoring; conservation culturomics; culturomía de la conservación; monitoreo automatizado; monitoreo en tiempo real; real-time monitoring; índice de conciencia de especies; 保护文化组学; 实时监测; 物种关注度指数; 维基百科; 自动化监测 |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Biosciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2023 10:52 |
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2024 16:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/cobi.14096 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200387 |