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zeekayandHanzo Dev 6658236499 Credit the organisation on every published surface
Leadership and team cards, board and founding prose, an AI persona modelled on a
named individual, contributor and partner entries, and personal correspondence
addresses all named one person. The organisation carries them now.

Other people keep their names. Where a card, a board list or a founding line
named someone else alongside, they stay exactly as they were; only the one entry
was removed, and prose that listed two names now reads with one.

Sample and fixture data uses the placeholder name these tests already use
elsewhere, so the IAM username defect the notes describe still reads as written.
The zoo/yapp MIT notice names the foundation that publishes it.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
2026-09-01 08:58:11 -07:00

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{shared/zoocover}
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\fancyhead[L]{\small Zoo Labs Foundation Research}
\fancyhead[R]{\small Citizen Science Platform}
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\title{%
\textbf{Citizen Science Platform: Gamified\\Biodiversity Data Collection}\\[0.5em]
\large Zoo Labs Foundation Paper ZOO-CSP-2026
}
\author{
Zoo Labs Foundation Research\\
\texttt{[email protected]}\\[0.5em]
\small With contributions from the Zoo Open Science Network
}
\date{September 2023}
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\begin{abstract}
\noindent
Citizen science has become indispensable for biodiversity monitoring,
generating billions of observations annually through platforms like eBird
and iNaturalist. However, citizen science data suffers from systematic
biases---spatial clustering near population centers, temporal clustering
on weekends and holidays, and taxonomic bias toward charismatic
species---that limit its scientific utility. We present \textbf{ZooPlatform},
a gamified citizen science platform that combines AI-assisted species
identification, adaptive sampling incentives, multi-source data quality
estimation, and blockchain-verified contribution records to produce
research-grade biodiversity data at scale. ZooPlatform's gamification
engine uses reinforcement learning to personalize challenges that
direct observer effort toward data-scarce regions, times, and taxa,
reducing spatial sampling bias by 47\% and taxonomic bias by 34\%
compared to unguided observation. A Bayesian data quality model
integrates observer expertise, AI confidence, and environmental context
to assign per-observation reliability scores, enabling downstream
analyses to appropriately weight heterogeneous data. ZooPlatform has
enrolled 23{,}847 contributors across 41 countries over 14 months,
generating 4.2 million verified observations covering 12{,}394 species.
Contributors earn ZooRep tokens for verified contributions, which
integrate with Zoo DAO governance (ZOO-GOV-2026). All data is released
under CC-BY-4.0 through the Zoo Open Science Network.
\medskip
\noindent\textbf{Keywords:} citizen science, gamification, data quality,
AI-assisted identification, sampling bias, biodiversity monitoring,
contribution incentives
\end{abstract}
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\input{sections/02-related-work}
\input{sections/03-platform-architecture}
\input{sections/04-adaptive-gamification-engine}
\input{sections/05-ai-assisted-identification}
\input{sections/06-bayesian-data-quality-model}
\input{sections/07-token-incentive-system}
\input{sections/08-evaluation}
\input{sections/09-discussion}
\input{sections/10-implementation}
\input{sections/11-future-work}
\input{sections/99-conclusion}
\end{document}