Hi all,
looking forward to discussing ODK in person!
I'm interested in:
Case management and longitudinal studies:
Story "tagging a turtle nest":
- enumerator sticks a post with a label next to a turtle nest
- ranger comes back with fencing to prevent trampling
- researcher counts egg shells after nest has hatched
Story "marine wildlife incident":
- someone with wildlife incident app reports a stranded/injured turtle
- ranger gets alerted to rescue/remove stranded animal (push notifications from ODK Central on new submissions?)
- our vet gets notified about an incoming case
- case wrap-up gets reported to district manager and as "thank you/follow-up" to initial reporter
Story "asset management":
- Ranger 1 notices a bench in a national park needs re-painting
- Ranger 2 gets sent with paint bucket and needs to locate bench, then report as "painted"
Related: tasking field workers to fulfill a general task within a defined region. This might not need to happen within ODK but might be solved by: - following, offline capable map
- dynamically generated and synced vector layer of points and polygons (from previous ODK surveys, e.g. layer of benches requiring painting, polygons of areas requiring week killing if weeds sighted)
- separate ODK form to report completed tasks
Story "turtle tagging":
- Enumerator 1 tags a turtle after nesting, records tag "WB1234".
- Next night, enumerator 2 tags another turtle, notices tag "WB1235". Wants to know: when was this turtle seen last? Same beach? Neighbouring beach?
Complications: need to sync while out of reception - As a team leader, I want to review longitudinal case history (including all records collected but not yet uploaded) to detect and amend typos (WB1234 vs WB1235). Memory of enumerators fades after few hours, therefore best to review and reconstruct right after a tagging night.
Wishlist for hardware integration:
- For turtle tagging, I want to scan PIT tags ideally directly from an android device, or via tethered bluetooth PIT tag scanner. This would be a revolution in data quality if we wouldn't need to type in 10 digit PIT tag IDs being sweaty and tired (or wreck night vision with flashlight to scan barcodes).
- To survey for furry critters in trees (spotlighting surveys for Western Ringtail Possum) or Dolphins at sea, I want to bluetooth-tether a laser rangefinder to capture distance, bearing and elevation with one trigger pull.
- I might need to turn off devices to conserve power, and whip them out (and re-establish BT tether) quickly on demand.