The WildLab
March 1st, 2009 | Published in Mobile
The award-winning WildLab is a mobile service that helps citizen scientists collect better data. The WildLab platform delivers accurate, real-time scientific information to researchers, naturalists, and educators across a variety of platforms and technologies. The WildLab has three components: a mobile application, a Web site, and an API, for developers. Users can also easily export their data and submit it to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird Web site. The WildLab on the iPhone offers the most elegant and accurate sightings tool. A native application written in objective-C, it takes advantage of the assisted-GPS capabilities and the excellent user interface of the iPhone. It has a settings page that tags your data with effort information, and interactive maps that display eBird HotSpots and your own favorite birding locations. It is offered for sale in the iTunes App Store.
The second part of the WildLab is thewildlab.com. After signing up for an account, users view, sort, and edit their sightings collected in the field. They may also add sightings manually from the Web site, and export sightings into eBird record format. User HotSpots and sightings are displayed on an interactive map. For developers, some functionality of the WildLab’s platform is exposed via an Application Programming Interface (API). We plan on making it available to qualified developers later in the year. In general, we try to make it easy to adhere to the data collection standards of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird Web site.
Mediated Spaces, Inc. is an interactive design studio based in New York City. The Mediated Spaces team has worked on mobile phone projects, large-scale interactive technology installations, and technology consulting. They have also developed Facebook applications and VoIP/streaming technologies as well. All members of the team are graduates of the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Read more: TheWildLab.com
