Blogging Birds: telling informative stories about the lives of birds from telemetric data
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1461137
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1145/3231588
- Title of journal
- Communications- ACM
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 68
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0001-0782
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/3/234928-blogging-birds/fulltext
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 1
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This article reports a system that automatically blogs about the lives of endangered birds fitted with satellite tags. It shows that AI can compete with human writers to communicate ecological data to the public through informative texts that are creative and engaging. The RSPB (co-authors) used it for public engagement around red kite reintroduction efforts in Northern Scotland. It is published in the Communications of the ACM (100,000 readership for print version), was among just 8 projects featured in RCUK's Digital Economy impact report "Celebrating Success in the Digital Economy", and received an EPSRC prize (Telling Tales of Engagement [EP/L026996/1]).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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