Information processing for social data, the case of marine emblematic species

#emblematic species , #social representations , #reef heritage , #thematic school

Gilbert DAVID

Institut de Recherches pour le Développement

gilbert.david@ird.fr


Abstract

The communication deals with social representations and method to collect them quickly. The method of cognitive graphs was presented. As example, the main results of the Espam Project, dealing with emblematic species in Reunion island and New Caledonia, were presented. This communication shown that it is possible to collect qualitative data at a low cost in terms in human resources and time and to use these data for quantitative work when ranking is planed in the collection data work.