Figure 1
Natural History Museum’s online portal for citizen science. Digital image of herbarium page and database fields, including where a specimen was collected, geo-referencing coordinates, and a comments section, where volunteers could include information that did not match other fields. Source: Emily Oswald 2017.
Figure 2
Video still and detail from training workshop. The stills show (a) Martin, the herbarium collections manager, as he presents a map showing plants in the museum’s collections from Youngs County; and (b) dots representing vascular plants that appear “out in the middle of the sea.” Source: Emily Oswald 2019.
Table 1
Transcript of Episode A.
| 1 | Elisabeth: | Lars* has been working with our species map for a few years now. So he can say something about what we’ve had. [Addressing Lars] You’re probably the one with the best overview. |
| 2 | Lars: | Yes, ok, so now you’re talking about the Flora Atlas of Youngs County. And I had it on my computer at home for a couple of years. Before we moved it over to Species Map. |
| 3 | Martin: | Good choice. [laughs] |
| 4 | Lars: | Yes. But in it, we also had things we had gotten from the museum and information from there. And we tried to improve it in the Flora Atlas of Youngs County. |
| 5 | Martin: | But was it … hmm. But did it come back to the museum? |
| 6 | Lars: | No. They were very clear that we should not have double data. That we shouldn’t put in herbarium specimens. |
| 7 | Martin: | Yes, I agree with that. |
| 8 | Lars: | So for now those dots are still just as bad as they were, as they had been. |
| [for 30 seconds, Martin and Lars discuss how the society worked with museum data] | ||
| 9 | Martin: | But there, you should have contacted [the museum] as we did in Butlers County. |
| 10 | Lars: | Yes, yes. |
| 11 | Martin: | We improved the data for the museum. And then you guys get the museum’s data back again. |
| 12 | Lars: | Yes. |
[i] * Volunteer pseudonyms are in bold and underlined. Additional comments or descriptions of relevant actions are italicized in square brackets. Turns are numbered continuously across the episodes.
Table 2
Transcript of Episode B.
| 13 | Lars*: | [after speaking for 45 seconds] So then when it was on that side of the lake, I had to move it to Scottsville. |
| 14 | Martin: | Mhm, yes, this is the kind of job that is valuable for us when you guys have local knowledge that we don’t always have. We’ve gotten to be good at geography here [at the museum] as well, but you all have even more detailed knowledge about this kind of thing, right. |
| 15 | Elisabeth: | But that detailed knowledge, like Lars has of Youngs County is unique. Many of us don’t come from Youngs County you know. Don’t have the same, the same knowledge. Maybe we know something about the consolidation [of local administrative boundaries] but in such detail like Lars. [leans back, raises hands] I can’t. So I say [turning to Lars] wait until Sarah gets hers, it would be enough with the municipalities. |
[i] * Volunteer pseudonyms are in bold and underlined. Additional comments or descriptions of relevant actions are italicized in square brackets. Turns are numbered continuously across the episodes.
Table 3
Transcript of Episode C.
| 16 | Martin: | Also it can be a good idea to check the species name too. If it says white water lily, for example, so there’s, and then there’s a name, then it’s probably a pond or a lake or on the side, right. |
| 17 | Petter*: | Yeah. |
| [Elisabeth and Erik also nod] | ||
| 18 | Martin: | So, it looks a bit more elegant when water plants are in the water and land plants are on the land. |
| [several volunteers laugh, nod] | ||
| 19 | Frank: | If it hasn’t been drained, then. |
| [for 25 seconds Roger describes the geo-referencing task, displaying the portal on a large screen] | ||
| 20 | Martin: | There [gesturing towards the screen] yes it says [inaudible species name]. It must be in a canal or something, or in a dam. Or a water plant. |
| [for 60 seconds, Martin, Roger, and David discuss technical features of museum databases] | ||
| 21 | Erik: | No, we had some water up in Lawrenceville. That was regulated. Because here I would have had some plants. Just a few, some sandbanks out there, so [pauses] it was right out in the middle of the water there [turning to Martin] y’know, when we looked at the map. |
| 22 | Frank: | Water lily habitats can actually be drained. |
| 23 | Elisabeth: | Yes. |
| 24 | Frank: | That kind of thing can happen too. |
| 25 | Erik: | Yeah. |
| 26 | Martin: | Yes, one might use old aerial photos, then. [laughs] |
| 27 | Lars: | But we should also probably note that it’s more important to place some species than others. For, like, the wood anemone, for example. It’s not that important to get it so exactly located, to put it that way. But the Red List** species, it is nice to get those placed as exactly as possible. So one should perhaps prioritize what one puts work into and what one doesn’t put work into. |
[i] * Volunteer pseudonyms are in bold and underlined. Additional comments or descriptions of relevant actions are italicized in square brackets. Turns are numbered continuously across the episodes.
** The Norwegian Red List (Rødlista) is a list of species at risk of extinction in Norway.
Figure 3
Video stills edited for participant anonymity. Stills show Erik (center left) as he (a) raises and lowers his hands as he says “regulated” and (b) touches the table with his thumb and forefinger repeatedly as he says “some plants” (turn 21). Source: Emily Oswald 2019.