Dr. Liam Lysaght:

Yes, but we actually have an unusual set up. One of the characteristics of wildlife, nature conservation or biodiversity is that many people are passionately interested in a subject and these people are probably our national experts, but they work in a voluntary capacity. We do not have the expertise in house to do much of the data validation. Therefore, we rely on a network of validators or key national experts who validate the data on our behalf for free. We do much of the technical validation ourselves, because we have someone who can run scripts, but in terms of the intellectual expertise, we usually get external people to validate that.