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OSDG Community Dataset (OSDG-CD)
The OSDG Community Dataset (OSDG-CD) is a public dataset of thousands of text excerpts, which were validated by approximately 1,000 OSDG Community Platform citizen scientists from over 110 countries, with …

SPOTTERON Citizen Science Platform
SPOTTERON is a fully customizable and reliable solution for your Citizen Science and volunteer monitoring projects. It can be fully adapted to your project's needs and is constantly updated and …

How Networks of Citizen Observatories Can Increase the Quality and …
There is a growing acknowledgement that citizen observatories, and other forms of citizen-generated data, have a significant role in tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This is evident in …

Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and …
Social innovations are usually understood as new ideas, initiatives, or solutions that make it possible to meet the challenges of societies in fields such as social security, education, employment, culture, …
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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 …

Data Protection, Vulnerable Groups and Citizen Science: Protecting everyone's rights
In the first half of this interesting webinar, four experts share their views on data protection and vulnerable groups:
- Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the EDHEC …

Leidraad bij Datacharter voor Citizen Science
Met het Datacharter voor Citizen Science biedt Scivil, het Vlaamse kenniscentrum citizen science (CS), een leidraad aan om bij een citizen-scienceproject tot goed gedocumenteerde data te komen.
Het charter is …

Datacharter voor Citizen Science
Met het Datacharter voor Citizen Science biedt Scivil, het Vlaamse kenniscentrum citizen science (CS), een leidraad aan om bij een citizen-scienceproject tot goed gedocumenteerde data te komen.
Het charter is …

Practicing Citizen Science in Zurich – Handbook
This handbook is a practical guide on how to successfully design and run co-created Citizen Science projects, with some specific tips for practitioners in Zurich. The handbook is organized in …

Guide to Data Charter for Citizen Science
With the Data Charter for Citizen Science, Scivil, the Flemish knowledge centre for citizen science (CS), provides a guide to achieving well-documented data in a citizen-science project.
The charter is …

Introducing Cos4Cloud – ECSA & EU-Citizen.Science webinar #9
One of the biggest challenges of citizen science is the quality of data, as well as maintaining the citizen observatories used to collect this data. The Cos4Cloud (Co-designed citizen observatories for the EOS-Cloud) project is addressing …
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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 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 …