Facilitating a Citizen Science Network to Monitor Mammals through Camera Trapping

The Smithsonian Institution has created a data platform that allows for the management of volunteers to provide wildlife photographs and metadata that share a metadata structure, can be verified by experts, are curated by the Smithsonian, and can subsequently be shared across projects at a public website (emammal.org). The public website was launched in January, and the site has more than 25 active projects and 5 million images. Dr. Bill McShea will explain the dataflow and the utility of the site for science, conservation, education, and outreach.