Digitalizing fossils of the North Sea and Dutch beaches

This project aims to explore a novel citizen science that uses AI not just for post-upload identification, but for real-time guidance and natural language driven data collection, communication and consultation within the paleontology community. Current fossil data collection process is static, slow, and limited by inconsistent data quality and form-based inputs. There is no mobile interactive solution to support fossil identification in the field. To answer our research questions, we need to improve input data quality and quantity by improving user engagement and experience on edge. We explore this under HAICu in an interdiciplinary team from Fontys ICT, Naturalis, and Tilburg University.