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A Community Science (AKA Citizen Science) Index

on May 27, 2019

Tools and Projects

An invitation to contribute to the open collaborative index!

Add an item, chat, or leave a comment

Generation Research is putting together two collaborative indexes to help researchers in developing their community science practice.

The first listing is for FOSS tools and services, for example covering areas like: crowdsourcing, collaborative working, or data science tools.
The second is a list of projects to demonstrate good practice in what can be achieved when engaging more with the public, with an emphasis of showing the different types of spaces and event formats that can be created: environmental monitoring, book sprints and dashes, or DIY universities.

Join us over at the open spreadsheet on the CryptPad platform and add items or leave a comment.

In early June 2019 highlights of the Community Science Index will be published on GenR and at a later date an open collaborative paper will follow summarizing the findings of the indexing process.

Community Science, Fueled by Your Personal Data

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras on May 10, 2019

Image: Open Humans sketch. All images courtesy Open Humans

Post-Digital Community Science

Cite as: DOI

10.25815/4gdw-cv05

Citation format: The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition

Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian. ‘Community Science, Fueled by Your Personal Data’, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25815/4gdw-cv05.

Science, research, and society are missing out on the wealth of personal data being generated from the likes of fitness and health monitoring, and genetics because of poor regulatory framework to support user orientated and privacy driven data policies — AKA data sovereignty! Open Humans offers a working platform and data storage inside a standardized ecosystem that puts the users in control of their data and protects privacy.

Open Participatory Research — Four Challenges for Opening Science Beyond Scientific Institutions

Claudia Göbel on May 3, 2019

Image: Do-It-Together Science Bus, 2017, Waag (BY-NC-SA), https://waag.org/nl/project/do-it-together-science-bus

Post-Digital Community Science

Cite as:

DOI

10.25815/qykn-de07

Citation format: The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition

Göbel, Claudia. ‘Open Participatory Research — Four Challenges for Opening Science Beyond Scientific Institutions’, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25815/qykn-de07.

Claudia Göbel proposes a framework of examination for how Citizen Science and other types of participatory research should form a more prominent part of the much needed cultural change in knowledge institutions. This is to complement the many reforms already underway in other areas of Open Science & Scholarship.

Loners, Pathfinders, or Explorers? How are the Humanities Progressing in Open Science?

Erzsebet Toth-Czifra & Ulrike Wuttke on April 24, 2019

Image: Barcamp Open Science, organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science and hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland, 18 March, 2019, Berlin. Ralf Rebmann, CC BY 4.0 license.

Cite as:

DOI

10.25815/x516-wf23

Citation format: The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition

Tóth-Czifra, Erzsébet & Wuttke, Ulrike. ‘Loners, Pathfinders, or Explorers? How are the Humanities Progressing in Open Science?’, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25815/x516-wf23.

There is an ever-increasing number of people who are interested in — or practice — Open Science or Open Scholarship. Whatever it means to us individually, we all have a need from time to time to see the bigger picture and reflect on where are we in this space: what we hope to achieve through it, how others can help us, and reflect on what are the shared values in the open research culture for us and for the society at large.

The Open Science Barcamp, which was for the fifth year already a recurring pre-event for the more formal International Open Science Conference in Berlin, is all about this reflection. It brings together open-minded curious people from different countries, (disciplinary) background and level of involvement in Open Science for a full day of informal, but intensive and action-oriented exchange about how to take collaboration, transparency, reproducibility, and in general the development of an open culture to the next level.

Open Science Top Ten Tools – All Open Source!

on April 4, 2019

DOI:

10.25815/7hta-ve88

Citation format: The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition

Generation R. ‘Open Science Top Ten Tools – All Open Source!’, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25815/7hta-ve88.

Open Science Learning

A list of general purpose tools for researchers compiled by Generation R which can be used with no additional learning other than standard user interface familiarity.

There will be an advanced ‘Data Scientists 4 All’ Top Ten coming soon 🙂

This top ten index is part of GenRs theme Integrating Open Science Learning into Higher Education (Jan/Mar 2019).