Part of the Recorder Feedback system: https://github.com/BiologicalRecordsCentre/recorder-feedback
Welcome to the Recorder Feedback Repository! This site provides resources, templates, and ideas to help you design effective personalised feedback systems that improve engagement, data quality, and targeted data collection.
Biological recorders and other contributors play a vital role in providing biodiversity and data insights. Personalised feedback can help:
- Boost Engagement: Encourage recorders to stay active and motivated.
- Improve Data Quality: Offer constructive feedback to refine contributions.
- Target Data Collection: Nudge recorders toward areas or species of greatest need.
Here the ideas are grouped by project. Within each project page you will find a readme with project background (motivation, design process) and then any content derived from the project.
A large-scale experiment (500-1000 participants) to test the effectiveness of personalised feedback in influencing recorder behaviour.
A small scale demonstrator of recorder feedback to a semi-structured monitoring scheme (timed counts).
MyDECIDE was a component of the broader DECIDE project, which aimed to improve biological recording by encouraging recorders to sample high-priority locations identified via species distribution models. The DECIDE Recorder Tool, a web application, guided users to areas in Great Britain where butterfly and moth recording would be most valuable. MyDECIDE complemented this by sending personalised or generalised data-driven emails (‘data stories’) to participants, tailored to their recording history and motivations, to enhance engagement and encourage use of the Tool. An experiement with ~850 participants.
Here we can capture content in early stages of development.
The ouputs from a workshop "Designing personalised feedback to inspire biological recorders and fill data gaps" run as part of the TEPoP Autumn Festival
Find external resources here: https://github.com/BiologicalRecordsCentre/recorder-feedback-repository/blob/main/resources.md
If you have feedback ideas, templates, or resources to share:
- Visit the Contribution Guidelines.
- Submit your ideas as a pull request.