Citizen science and open science
The adoption of open science approaches and policies can benefit citizen science by increasing its visibility and creating opportunities for collaboration, ensuring data persistence, and securing its legacies and impacts in scientific research and policy. At the same time, citizen science is an approach to make research in its many facets more participatory. This working group seeks to:
(1) explore interrelations between citizen science and open science
(2) foster the exchange of experiences and gather good practices at the intersections between citizen science and open science
(3) channel opportunities for the citizen science community towards engaging in regional policy processes on how citizen science is addressed as part of open science
(4) help to reduce the technical, legal and other barriers that prevent ECSA members and their partners from adopting open science policies and approaches that could maximize the long-term impact of their programmes.
Chair
Working group
members
- Aleksandra Berditchevskaia
- Alexandre Pólvora
- Anne Bowser
- Annick Labeeuw
- Bálint Balázs
- Barron Orr (observer)
- Celya Gruson-Daniel
- Christine Marizzi
- Claudia Göbel
- Daniel Dörler
- Daniel Mietchen
- Dave Murray-Rust
- Dieter Weiss
- Dilek Sahin
- Dominik Scholl
- Donat Agosti
- Eileen Scanlon
- Erich Prem
- Eveline Wandl-Vogt
- Fermin Serrano
- Franz Hölker
- Heiner Benking
- Ilias Trochidis
- Julie Sheard
- Katrin Vohland
- Libby Hepburn
- Luis Velasquez
- Marc Thorley (observer)
- Muki Haklay
- Oscar Corcho
- Paul Groth
- Peter Desmet
- Qijun Jiang
- Rosy Mondardini
- Seán Lynch
- Soledad Luna
- Sven Schade
- Thomas Hervé Mboa
- Tomi Kauppinen
- Wiebke Herding
Activities
- We currently work through Basecamp.
- The working group’s documents are stored here.
- Meetings minutes can be found here.
- Work on the principles for citizen science app led to a workshop report and published paper.
- Policy brief writing workshop, July 2017
- Local stakeholder roundtable (together with DITOs) to present and discuss the policy brief on citizen science and open science, October 2017
- Published the policy brief on citizen science and open science, February 2018
- Session at ECSA conference, June 2018
How to get involved
This working group particularly looks for:
- practical knowledge and relevant experience in either or both citizen science and aspects of open science, including open standards, open data, open licensing, open source-development, open-access publishing, open education, open hardware, etc.
- participants from different domains, which could include (but are not limited to): air- and water-quality monitoring; archaeology; astronomy; biodiversity; civic infrastructures (e.g. open mapping); open-access publishing; and scientific standards.