Lessons from the LandSense project – ECSA & EU-Citizen.Science Webinar …
LandSense is a Horizon 2020 project that started in September 2016. It aims to build a Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring. This project …
Citizen Science in a Global Perspective – Webinar
Citizen Science has become an umbrella term for a variety of forms of public participation in scientific research. This participation ranges from data gathering to more collaborative and community-led forms. …
How to do research with people from outside academia – …
This webinar was organized by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) in cooperation with Wikimedia Germany as part of the Fellow Programm Freies Wissen 2017/18. This is an introductory webinar on …
Citizen science to monitor landscape changes – ECSA Webinar
This is an ECSA webinar that took place on the 7th of December 2017 with researchers from IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) including two talks: (1) “Mobilizing citizens …
Citizen Science Project Builder
The Citizen Science Project Builder is a web-based tool that allows researchers, students, and all members of the public to create and run data-analysis Citizen Science (CS) projects.
The CS …
Data Quality Resource Compendium by the CSA Data and Metadata …
The QA/QC Project team of the CSA Metadata Working Group has compiled a compendium of guidance documents, manuals, and workbooks produced for citizen science. The resulting spreadsheet is a treasure-trove …
Creating a citizens’ information pack on ethical and legal issues …
This is the report from a workshop co-hosted by ECSA, COST Action 15212, EU-Citizen.Science, Panelfit and ICM-CSIC, which explored the ethical and legal issues around ICTs (e.g. privacy, data rights) …
Handbook for Citizen Science Quality Assurance and Documentation
This Handbook for Citizen Science Quality Assurance and Documentation is for organizations that are starting or growing a citizen science project, and where transparency in the scientific methods for collecting …
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Peer-reviewed article published in Nature Sustainability on the potential of citizen science to contribute data for monitoring progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper grew out of …
Living Knowledge Toolbox
This toolbox service will empower new Science Shops and people working in community based research in developing professional standards and enable existing Science Shops to refine and improve their practice …
Sapelli - data collection for non-literate participants
"Sapelli is an open-source project that facilitates data collection across language or literacy barriers through highly configurable icon-driven user interfaces. We encourage people to download the app from the Google …
Citizen Science and Data Integration for Understanding Marine Litter
"Protecting the ocean is essential for the sustainability of the planet. Oceans provide food and livelihood for human populations, host vast biodiversity and ecosystems and provide climate regulatory services. However, …
A manual for citizen scientists starting or participating in data …
This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice. It is our …
Empfehlungskatalog für juristische Fragen in Citizen Science Projekten
The aim of the working group on Citizen Science and Legal Aspects was to analyse and provide guidance on the changes that the new European Data Protection Regulation will bring …
Citizen Science Network Austria Working Group on Open Biodiversity Databases …
As part of the Citizen Science Network Austria (https://www.citizen-science.at/netzwerk), the working group Open Biodiversity Databases in Citizen Science Projects was established in February 2018. The objectives of this working group …
Summary report and strategy recommendations for EU citizen science gateway …
EU BON project has analyzed the citizen science landscape in Europe with regards to biodiversity research and proposes several policy recommendations. One of the recommendations is a Pan-European citizen science …