Publications

Sheppard, S. A. Managing Data Quality in Observational Citizen Science. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy. December 2017.

Sheppard, S. A., Turner, J., Thebault-Spieker, J., Zhu, H., and Terveen, L. Never Too Old, Cold or Dry to Watch the Sky: A Survival Analysis of Citizen Science Volunteerism. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 1, CSCW. December 2017.

Sheppard, S. A., Wiggins, A., and Terveen, L. Capturing Quality: Retaining provenance for curated volunteer monitoring data.
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2014). ACM. February 2014.

Sheppard, S. A. wq: a modular framework for collecting, storing, and utilizing experiential VGI.
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information (GEOCROWD '12). ACM. November 2012.

Sheppard, S. A. and Terveen, L. Quality is a Verb: The operationalization of data quality in a citizen science community. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (Wikisym '11). ACM. October 2011.

Torre, F., Sheppard, S. A., Priedhorsky, R., and Terveen, L. bumpy, caution with merging: an exploration of tagging in a geowiki.
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP '10). ACM. November 2010.