Recognizing failures in citizen science projects: Lessons learned

Failures are an immanent part of academic processes driving research progress. Therefore, they are also present in citizen science projects. Still the research community tends to highlight the successes while willingly omitting the mistakes and thus, withholding important information from their peers. This article presents results from an interactive conference workshop, during which participants discussed their experience of failures in citizen science projects and proposed anti-fail tips to enhance processes in the future. With the workshop and this article the authors want to contribute to the establishment of an error culture in citizen science.

Publish information

Publisher:	Proceedings of Science
Year of publication:	2021
License:	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.393.0007

Language

English

Keywords

Citizen Science Lessons Learned Fail Project Management

Theme

Communication Research Design And Methods Project Management Introduction To Cs Data Quality And Standards Evaluation Of Citizen Science

Category

Text : Report

Audience

Researchers & Academics Cs Project Leaders & Initiators