Mushroom Data Demystified

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Fungi taxonomy is shockingly incomplete: around 280 new fungal species per year, we likely know less than 5% of fungi, and at current rates cataloging could take ~5,000 years. Mushroom Observer is a community database (launched 2006) that logs geo-tagged photos, crowd-sourced IDs by weighted consensus, and exposes CC-licensed photos to researchers; the site code is MIT-licensed and implemented in Rails. The site works for mapping fruiting times and ranges but needs refactoring, HTML-safe testing, and a mobile GPS-enabled app.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:43History of Citizen Science
3. 13:08Mushroom Observer
4. 14:35The Mushroom Hunters
5. 23:30Interface of Mushroom Observer
6. 25:31Shaggy Mane Mushroom

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