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Work on this piece started on January 2012. It includes some rough literature review on chosen topics, in particular with respect to topics like 'how do participants learn', 'in what respect are citizens creative', 'what is their motivation', 'how do communities work'. In other words, this article is just a 'note taking' piece and it should be revised some day ...

See also:

  • The citizen scienc portal centralizes EduTechWiki resources on citizen science, i.e. structured entries on citizen science projects, infrastructures, and software.


  • 1Introduction
    • 1.1Types of citizen science
  • 2Topics in the study of citizen science projects
  • 3Software
  • 4Links

1 Introduction

Citizen science does not have a uniquely accepted definition. It could mean:

Citizen
  • Providing computing power through automatic middleware (a typical example is the captcha mechanism in this wiki for curbing spam)
  • Participation of citizen for collection of data, for example observation of animals, pollution, or plant growth. This variant is a form of 'crowd sourcing'.
  • Participation of citizen for categorizing and analyzing data, in various forms. An example would be helping to recognize patterns (e.g. forms of galaxies)
  • Dissemination of scientific thought and results in schools in order to promote engagement with science or with the intent to help updating the curriculum.
  • Participatory action research (also called 'extreme citizen science')
  • Amateur science, i.e. citizen create scientific thoughts and other products (e.g. discovery of new species)
  • Citizen assessment of science and scientific projects.

See also: e-science

1.1 Types of citizen science

The variety of citizen science programs is important with respect to many criteria, e.g.: aims, target population, locations (schools, museums, media, Internet groups), forms, subject areas, tasks, etc.

1.1.1 Conceptual models

Cooper et al. (2007) distinguish between the citizen science model and the participatory action research model. The former uses citizens as data collectors and will receive recognition (including results of the study). Participatory action research 'begins with the interests of participants, who work collaboratively with professional researchers through all steps of the scientific process to find solutions to problems of community relevance Finn (1994) outlined three key elements of participatory research: (1) it responds to the experiences and needs of the community, (2) it fosters collaboration between researchers and community in research activities, and (3) it promotes common knowledge and increases community awareness. Although citizen science can have research and education goals similar to many participatory action research projects (Finn 1994 and below), citizen science is distinct from participatory action research in that it occurs at larger scales and typically does not incorporate iterative or collaborative action.'. However, some citizen science project do actively try to engage citizens to participate as we shall try to show below.

Wiggins and Crowston (2011) identified 'five mutually exclusiveand exhaustive types of projects, which [they] labelled Action, Conservation, Investigation, Virtual and Education. Action projects employ volunteer-initiated participatory action research to encourage participant intervention in local concerns. Conservation projects address natural resource management goals, involving citizens in stewardship for outreach and increased scope. Investigation projects focus on scientific research goals in a physical setting, while Virtual projectshave goals similar to Investigation projects, but are entirely ICT-mediated and differ in a number of other characteristics. Finally, Education projects make education and outreach primary goals'.

Haklay (in press) distinguised between broad categories: classic citizen science and citizen cyberscience.

  • Classic: Observation (e.g. birds) , environmental management
  • Citizen cyberscience: volunteered computing, volunteered thinking and participatory sensing.

In the same book chapter, Haklay (in press) then presents a framework for classifying the level of participation and engagement of participants in citizen science activities.

  1. Crowdsourcing: Citizen participate by providing computing power, do automatic data collection e.g. carry sensors. Cognitive engagement is minimal.
  2. Distributed Intelligence: Participants are asked to observe and collect data (e.g. birds) and/or carry out simple interpretation activities. A typical example of the latter is GalaxyZoo. Participants need some basic training.
  3. Participatory Science: Participants define the problem and, in consultation with scientists and experts, a data collection method is devised. Typical examples are envionmental justice cases, but it also can occur in distributed intelligence settings when they are allowed/encourage to formulate new questions. In both cases research are in charge of detailed analysis.
  4. Extreme Citizen Science (collaborative science): Both non-professional and professional scientists are involved in identifying problems, data collections, etc. Participation level can change, i.e. participants may or may not be involved in analysis and publication of results. In this mode, scientists also should act as facilitators and not just experts.

Haklay argues, that this ladder could be implemented in most projects. E.g. in volunteer crowdsourcing projects, most participants may just provide computing power. Others could help with technical problems, still others could e.g. rewrite parts of the software or get in touch with scientists and suggest new research directions. Finally, citizen science also may encourage scientists to become citizens, i.e. consider how their projects could integrate with society in several ways. Both aspects are related to the 'intriguing possibility is that citizen science will work as an integral part of participatory science in which the whole scientific process is performed in collaboration with the wider public.'

1.1.2 Empirical models

Wiggins and Crowston (2012) then created two typologies of citizen science projets, using data from 63 projects. A first typology is based on twelve participation tasks, i.e. Observation, Species identification, Classification or tagging, Data entry, Finding entities, Measurement, Specimen/sample collection, Sample analysis, Site selection &/or description, Geolocation, Photography, Data analysis, and Number of tasks. The other typology is based on ten project goals, i.e. Science, Management, Action, Education, Conservation, Monitoring, Restoration, Outreach, Stewardship, and Discovery.

Participation clusters:

A New Ladder Of Citizen Participation Pdf To Excel
  1. Involve observation and identification tasks, but never require analysis. (13)
  2. Involve observation, data entry, and analysis, but include no locational tasks such as site selection or geolocation (6)
  3. Engage participants in a variety of tasks, the only participation task not represented is sample analysis (17)
  4. Engage the public in every participation task considered (15)
  5. Involve reporting, using observations, species identification, and data entry, but with very few additional participation opportunities (12)

Goal clusters:

  1. Afforded nearly equal weights (midpoint of the scale or higher) to each of the goal areas
  2. Most strongly focused on science
  3. Science is the most important goal, but education, monitoring, and discovery are only slightly less important on average
  4. Science, conservation, monitoring and stewardship are most important, while discovery is less valued than in the preceding clusters
  5. Outlier

For other typologies, see Wiggins and Crowston (2012).

2 Topics in the study of citizen science projects

2.1 Motivation

Motivation and motivation in education are complex constructs. A typical general model includes several components. E.g. Herzberg's (1959) five component model of job satisfaction includes achievement, recognition, work itself, responsibility, and advancement.

Some recent research by Raddick et al. (2010) about motivations of participants in cyberscience projects analyzed free forum messages and structured interviews. The first mentioned categories include the subject (astronomy), contribution and vastness. Learning (3%) and Science (1%) were minor. Looking at all responses, the same motivations - subject (46%), contribution (22%), vastness (24%) - still dominate, but other motivations exceed 10%, e.g. beauty (16%), fun (11%) and learning (10%).

It might be interesting to also look at personality traits of participants. E.g. Furnham et al. (1999) in a study about personality and work motivation found out that extroverts on the Eysenck Personality Profile correlate with a preference for Herzberg's motivators, whereas 'neuroticism' correlates with so-called hygiene factors, i.e. the environment. In other words, extraverts are rather motivated by intrinsic factors whereas others by extrinsic ones.

2.2 Virtual organisations for citizen science

An important variant of citizen science uses citizens as helpers for research. 'Citizen science is a form of organisation design for collaborative scientific research involving scientists and volunteers, for which internet-basedmodes of participation enable massive virtual collaboration by thousands of members of the public.' (Wiggins and Crowson, 2010:148). The authors argue that virtual organisations for citizen science are a bit different from other virtual organizations: 'The projectlevel of group interaction is distinct from those of small work groups and organisations (Grudin, 1994), which has implications for organisation design efforts. Project teams and communities of practice can be distinguished by their goal orientation among other features (Wenger, 1999), but empirical observation of citizen science VOs to dateindicates a hybrid ‘community of purpose' might better describe many projects, with characteristics of both a project team and a community of practice or interest.' (p 159).

Wiggins and Crowson (2010) then suggest a conceptual model of citizen science virtual organizations.

Source: Wiggins and Crowston, Preprint. Copyright A Wiggins and K. Crowston, reproduced with permission.

A new version of this model is under preparation, according to K. Crowston (email communication 1/2012).

2.3 Learning in citizen science projects

Luther et al. (2009) related learning in citizen science projects to Wikipedia and open source (OSS) participation. 'researchers have identified some surprising commonalities between Wikipedia and OSS worth mentioning here. The first is legitimate peripheral participation (LPP), a theory of social learning which holds that novices in a community of practice may transform into experts by observing expert practices and taking on increasingly complex work (Lave & Wenger, 1991). In the case of Wikipedia, a user may begin by fixing typos, gradually making more substantial edits until she is writing entire articles from scratch (Brynt et al. 2005). In OSS, bug reporters may write a few lines of code to fix a glitch and eventually learn to code new modules'.

The Caise report argues that 'educational research shows that people have greater motivation to engage and learnif the subject matter is directly relevant to their lives and interests and/or if the learning process is interactive—one in which the learner can directly affect the learning process, content, and/or outcomes of the experience (Falk 2001)'.

According to Cooper et al (2007) 'Citizen science also provides informal learning experiences that improve science literacy (Krasny and Bonney 2005, Evans et al. 2005). Several studies have found that citizen science projects at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology have improved participants' knowledge about biology and natural history, engaged them directly in the process of inquisitive thinking, and increased their ability to frame questions scientifically (Bonney and Dhondt 1997, Trumbull et al. 2000, 2005, Lewenstein 2001, Bonney 2004, Krasny and Bonney 2005).'

Sternberg (according to Lehtinen, 2010) points out that wisdom - i.e. the highest end of the continuum that goes from data to information, from information to knowledge and from knowledge to wisdom - is not so much taught directly but learned as a by‑product of the activities in practical situations and working or learning environments.

2.4 Citizen science and inquiry learning

According to van Joolingen et al (2007). 'science learning should also focus on the processes and methods used by scientists to achieve such results. One obvious way to bring students into contact with the scientific way of working is to have them engage in the processes of scientific inquiry themselves, by offering them environments and tasks that allow them to carry out the processes of science: orientation, stating hypotheses, experimentation, creating models and theories, and evaluation (de Jong 2006a). Involving students in the processes of science brings them into the closest possible contact with the nature of scientific understanding, including its strengths, problems and limitations (Dunbar 1999). This is the main claim of inquiry learning: engaging learners in scientific processes helps them build a personal knowledge base that is scientific, in the sense that they can use this knowledge to predict and explain what they observe in the natural world.'

A new ladder of citizen participation pdf to excel download
  • Providing computing power through automatic middleware (a typical example is the captcha mechanism in this wiki for curbing spam)
  • Participation of citizen for collection of data, for example observation of animals, pollution, or plant growth. This variant is a form of 'crowd sourcing'.
  • Participation of citizen for categorizing and analyzing data, in various forms. An example would be helping to recognize patterns (e.g. forms of galaxies)
  • Dissemination of scientific thought and results in schools in order to promote engagement with science or with the intent to help updating the curriculum.
  • Participatory action research (also called 'extreme citizen science')
  • Amateur science, i.e. citizen create scientific thoughts and other products (e.g. discovery of new species)
  • Citizen assessment of science and scientific projects.

See also: e-science

1.1 Types of citizen science

The variety of citizen science programs is important with respect to many criteria, e.g.: aims, target population, locations (schools, museums, media, Internet groups), forms, subject areas, tasks, etc.

1.1.1 Conceptual models

Cooper et al. (2007) distinguish between the citizen science model and the participatory action research model. The former uses citizens as data collectors and will receive recognition (including results of the study). Participatory action research 'begins with the interests of participants, who work collaboratively with professional researchers through all steps of the scientific process to find solutions to problems of community relevance Finn (1994) outlined three key elements of participatory research: (1) it responds to the experiences and needs of the community, (2) it fosters collaboration between researchers and community in research activities, and (3) it promotes common knowledge and increases community awareness. Although citizen science can have research and education goals similar to many participatory action research projects (Finn 1994 and below), citizen science is distinct from participatory action research in that it occurs at larger scales and typically does not incorporate iterative or collaborative action.'. However, some citizen science project do actively try to engage citizens to participate as we shall try to show below.

Wiggins and Crowston (2011) identified 'five mutually exclusiveand exhaustive types of projects, which [they] labelled Action, Conservation, Investigation, Virtual and Education. Action projects employ volunteer-initiated participatory action research to encourage participant intervention in local concerns. Conservation projects address natural resource management goals, involving citizens in stewardship for outreach and increased scope. Investigation projects focus on scientific research goals in a physical setting, while Virtual projectshave goals similar to Investigation projects, but are entirely ICT-mediated and differ in a number of other characteristics. Finally, Education projects make education and outreach primary goals'.

Haklay (in press) distinguised between broad categories: classic citizen science and citizen cyberscience.

  • Classic: Observation (e.g. birds) , environmental management
  • Citizen cyberscience: volunteered computing, volunteered thinking and participatory sensing.

In the same book chapter, Haklay (in press) then presents a framework for classifying the level of participation and engagement of participants in citizen science activities.

  1. Crowdsourcing: Citizen participate by providing computing power, do automatic data collection e.g. carry sensors. Cognitive engagement is minimal.
  2. Distributed Intelligence: Participants are asked to observe and collect data (e.g. birds) and/or carry out simple interpretation activities. A typical example of the latter is GalaxyZoo. Participants need some basic training.
  3. Participatory Science: Participants define the problem and, in consultation with scientists and experts, a data collection method is devised. Typical examples are envionmental justice cases, but it also can occur in distributed intelligence settings when they are allowed/encourage to formulate new questions. In both cases research are in charge of detailed analysis.
  4. Extreme Citizen Science (collaborative science): Both non-professional and professional scientists are involved in identifying problems, data collections, etc. Participation level can change, i.e. participants may or may not be involved in analysis and publication of results. In this mode, scientists also should act as facilitators and not just experts.

Haklay argues, that this ladder could be implemented in most projects. E.g. in volunteer crowdsourcing projects, most participants may just provide computing power. Others could help with technical problems, still others could e.g. rewrite parts of the software or get in touch with scientists and suggest new research directions. Finally, citizen science also may encourage scientists to become citizens, i.e. consider how their projects could integrate with society in several ways. Both aspects are related to the 'intriguing possibility is that citizen science will work as an integral part of participatory science in which the whole scientific process is performed in collaboration with the wider public.'

1.1.2 Empirical models

Wiggins and Crowston (2012) then created two typologies of citizen science projets, using data from 63 projects. A first typology is based on twelve participation tasks, i.e. Observation, Species identification, Classification or tagging, Data entry, Finding entities, Measurement, Specimen/sample collection, Sample analysis, Site selection &/or description, Geolocation, Photography, Data analysis, and Number of tasks. The other typology is based on ten project goals, i.e. Science, Management, Action, Education, Conservation, Monitoring, Restoration, Outreach, Stewardship, and Discovery.

Participation clusters:

  1. Involve observation and identification tasks, but never require analysis. (13)
  2. Involve observation, data entry, and analysis, but include no locational tasks such as site selection or geolocation (6)
  3. Engage participants in a variety of tasks, the only participation task not represented is sample analysis (17)
  4. Engage the public in every participation task considered (15)
  5. Involve reporting, using observations, species identification, and data entry, but with very few additional participation opportunities (12)

Goal clusters:

  1. Afforded nearly equal weights (midpoint of the scale or higher) to each of the goal areas
  2. Most strongly focused on science
  3. Science is the most important goal, but education, monitoring, and discovery are only slightly less important on average
  4. Science, conservation, monitoring and stewardship are most important, while discovery is less valued than in the preceding clusters
  5. Outlier

For other typologies, see Wiggins and Crowston (2012).

2 Topics in the study of citizen science projects

2.1 Motivation

Motivation and motivation in education are complex constructs. A typical general model includes several components. E.g. Herzberg's (1959) five component model of job satisfaction includes achievement, recognition, work itself, responsibility, and advancement.

Some recent research by Raddick et al. (2010) about motivations of participants in cyberscience projects analyzed free forum messages and structured interviews. The first mentioned categories include the subject (astronomy), contribution and vastness. Learning (3%) and Science (1%) were minor. Looking at all responses, the same motivations - subject (46%), contribution (22%), vastness (24%) - still dominate, but other motivations exceed 10%, e.g. beauty (16%), fun (11%) and learning (10%).

It might be interesting to also look at personality traits of participants. E.g. Furnham et al. (1999) in a study about personality and work motivation found out that extroverts on the Eysenck Personality Profile correlate with a preference for Herzberg's motivators, whereas 'neuroticism' correlates with so-called hygiene factors, i.e. the environment. In other words, extraverts are rather motivated by intrinsic factors whereas others by extrinsic ones.

2.2 Virtual organisations for citizen science

An important variant of citizen science uses citizens as helpers for research. 'Citizen science is a form of organisation design for collaborative scientific research involving scientists and volunteers, for which internet-basedmodes of participation enable massive virtual collaboration by thousands of members of the public.' (Wiggins and Crowson, 2010:148). The authors argue that virtual organisations for citizen science are a bit different from other virtual organizations: 'The projectlevel of group interaction is distinct from those of small work groups and organisations (Grudin, 1994), which has implications for organisation design efforts. Project teams and communities of practice can be distinguished by their goal orientation among other features (Wenger, 1999), but empirical observation of citizen science VOs to dateindicates a hybrid ‘community of purpose' might better describe many projects, with characteristics of both a project team and a community of practice or interest.' (p 159).

Wiggins and Crowson (2010) then suggest a conceptual model of citizen science virtual organizations.

Source: Wiggins and Crowston, Preprint. Copyright A Wiggins and K. Crowston, reproduced with permission.

A new version of this model is under preparation, according to K. Crowston (email communication 1/2012).

2.3 Learning in citizen science projects

Luther et al. (2009) related learning in citizen science projects to Wikipedia and open source (OSS) participation. 'researchers have identified some surprising commonalities between Wikipedia and OSS worth mentioning here. The first is legitimate peripheral participation (LPP), a theory of social learning which holds that novices in a community of practice may transform into experts by observing expert practices and taking on increasingly complex work (Lave & Wenger, 1991). In the case of Wikipedia, a user may begin by fixing typos, gradually making more substantial edits until she is writing entire articles from scratch (Brynt et al. 2005). In OSS, bug reporters may write a few lines of code to fix a glitch and eventually learn to code new modules'.

The Caise report argues that 'educational research shows that people have greater motivation to engage and learnif the subject matter is directly relevant to their lives and interests and/or if the learning process is interactive—one in which the learner can directly affect the learning process, content, and/or outcomes of the experience (Falk 2001)'.

According to Cooper et al (2007) 'Citizen science also provides informal learning experiences that improve science literacy (Krasny and Bonney 2005, Evans et al. 2005). Several studies have found that citizen science projects at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology have improved participants' knowledge about biology and natural history, engaged them directly in the process of inquisitive thinking, and increased their ability to frame questions scientifically (Bonney and Dhondt 1997, Trumbull et al. 2000, 2005, Lewenstein 2001, Bonney 2004, Krasny and Bonney 2005).'

Sternberg (according to Lehtinen, 2010) points out that wisdom - i.e. the highest end of the continuum that goes from data to information, from information to knowledge and from knowledge to wisdom - is not so much taught directly but learned as a by‑product of the activities in practical situations and working or learning environments.

2.4 Citizen science and inquiry learning

According to van Joolingen et al (2007). 'science learning should also focus on the processes and methods used by scientists to achieve such results. One obvious way to bring students into contact with the scientific way of working is to have them engage in the processes of scientific inquiry themselves, by offering them environments and tasks that allow them to carry out the processes of science: orientation, stating hypotheses, experimentation, creating models and theories, and evaluation (de Jong 2006a). Involving students in the processes of science brings them into the closest possible contact with the nature of scientific understanding, including its strengths, problems and limitations (Dunbar 1999). This is the main claim of inquiry learning: engaging learners in scientific processes helps them build a personal knowledge base that is scientific, in the sense that they can use this knowledge to predict and explain what they observe in the natural world.'

Adaptation of citizen science projects to inquiry learning in formal settings

There is a fairly strong connection between some citizen science projects and inquiry learning projects conducted in formal school settings. Some of latter participate in citizen science projects, others are somewhere in between (i.e. may use or even produce authentic data). Adapting citizen science to school context may not be easy, in particular when scientists outsource the development to curriculum developers who are not familiar with scientific inquiry.

Trumbull et al. (2005) describes the adaptation of Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology citizen science labs to US National Science Education Standards, i.e. curricular content and tasks for classroom use. Evaluation of the first version of the Classroom FeederWatch (CFW) project did not show evidence of progress in scientific thinking as defined by the US education standard: 'The evaluation data overall failed to support the claim that students learned inquiry abilities or developed understandings of inquiry as a result of participating in activities associated with CFW's early materials.' (p. 887). The authors attribute problems to several factors: Firstly, the teacher's lack of understanding of both scientific inquiry and inquiry learning. The US standard seems to difficult to understand and translate into practice and the authors also mention that the GenScope project was challenged in a similar way. Furthermore, students didn't understand that their data was actually being used for real and therefore may have been less motivated.

The probably most interesting finding was that 'the early versions of CFW featured a version of science and scientists that was too abstract and free of context. For example, the CFW exploration that directly addressed the scientific process presented the following sequence: formulate a question, predict an answer, develop procedures to gather information, collect and analyze data, communicate results, and raise new questions. As an abstraction, the description was adequate. For the purposes of teaching inquiry, the level of abstraction provided a simplistic, even distorted model of practical elements of scientific inquiry (Bencze & Hodson, 1999; Finley&Pocovi, 2000). The descriptionwas not adequate as a teaching strategy for learning how to conduct studies about birds. In particular, exploration narratives failed to explain how and why an ornithologist came to ask questions, which question got addressed, how she decided to gather data to address the question, or how he made sense of the data. There were, in short, no models that either students or teachers could examine that linked content (birds) to inquiry (bird studies).' (p. 898).

Last but not least, lack of birds and inability to identify or count birds were also major problems. Typically, bird lovers would not be challenged by either one. It's easy to build feeders to attract birds and bird counting is easy when one knows how to focus on particular features, called field marks.

The development team made three broad recommendations: (a) integrate content knowledge about birds and better explain inquiry (b) provide discipline specific models for conducting inquiry (e.g. ornithologists' for bird studies), and (c) assess outcomes mindful of broad rather than narrow definitions of inquiry to better reflect the Standards. In addition, the authors point out that there were rather severe communication problems between curriculum developers and ornithologists. The former lacked understanding of inquire and latter did not understand the crucial role of prior knowledge needed to plan and conduct bird studies.

In a different study on adapting an e-science environment, Waight and Abd-El-Khalick came to similar conclusions.

Lessons from inquiry learning designs and technology

Since many citizen science projects are quite ambitious, there might be a need for training users in a more formal way than participatory apprenticeship. Two or three decades of research in computer-supported inquiry learning may provide a few insights. According to Joolingen (2007), 'Support for learning processes typically takes the form of cognitive tools or scaffolds. The basic idea of most cognitive tools is to boost the performance of learning processes by providing information about them, by providing templates, or by constraining the learner's interaction with the learning environment.'. In a way, successful citizen learning platforms are exactly doing that. Besides design of the environment, there are many other factors that influence the learning process, in particular personality traits, prior knowledge (including understanding of inquiry), learner motivation, the teacher, the technological infrastructure, clear assessment criteria, etc.

2.5 Evaluation of informal science education

Informal science education refers mostly to larger or smaller top-down initiatives that aim to raise interest for STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects. As an example, 'The Informal Science Education (ISE) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF)invests in projects designed to increase interest in, engagement with, and understanding ofscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by individuals of all ages andbackgrounds through self-directed learning experiences' (Ucko, 2008: 9)

Things to evaluate

Dierking (2008:19), a contributor to the US Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projectsin Friedman (2008), suggests that a project should be able to answer at least the following questions at the outset of initiating a project:

  1. What audience impacts will this project facilitate?
  2. What approach/type of project will best enable us to accomplish these goals and why do we feel that this is the best approach to take?
  3. How will we know whether the activities of the project accomplished these intended goals and objectives and with what evidence will we support the assertion that they did?
  4. How will we ensure that unanticipated outcomes are also documented?

This US 'Informal education and outreach framework' (Uko 2008:11, Dierking 2008:21) identifies six impact categories with respect to both public audiences and professional audiences.

The Informal Education and Outreach Framework (Uko 2008:11, Dierking 2008:21)
Impact CategoryPublic AudiencesProfessional AudiencesGeneric Definition
Awareness, knowledge or understanding (of)STEM concepts, processes, or careersInformal STEM education/outreach research or practice.Measurable demonstration of assessment of, change in, or exercise of awareness, knowledge, understanding of a particular scientific topic, concept, phenomena, theory, or careers central to the project.
Engagement or interest (in)STEM concepts, processes, or careersAdvancing informal STEM education/outreach fieldMeasurable demonstration of assessment of, change in, or exercise of engagement/interest in a particular scientific topic, concept, phenomena, theory, or careers central to the project.
Attitude (towards)STEM-related topic or capabilitiesInformal STEM education/outreach research or practiceMeasurable demonstration of assessment of, change in, or exercise of attitude toward a particular scientific topic, concept, phenomena, theory, or careers central to the project or one's capabilities relative to these areas. Although similar to awareness/interest/engagement, attitudes refer to changes in relatively stable, more intractable constructs such as empathy for animals and their habitats, appreciation for the role of scientists in society or attitudes toward stem cell research.
Behavior (related to)STEM concepts, processes, or careersInformal STEM education/outreach research or practiceMeasurable demonstration of assessment of, change in, or exercise of behavior related to a STEM topic. These types of impacts are particularly relevant to projects that are environmental in nature or have some kind of a health science focus since action is a desired outcome.
Skills (based on)STEM concepts, processes, or careersInformal STEM education/outreach research or practiceMeasurable demonstration of the development and/or reinforcement of skills, either entirely new ones or the reinforcement, even practice, of developing skills. These tend to be procedural aspects of knowing, as opposed to the more declarative aspects of knowledge impacts. Although they can sometimes manifest as engagement, typically observed skills include a level of depth and skill such as engaging in scientific inquiry skills (observing, classifying, exploring, questioning, predicting, or experimenting), as well as developing/practicing very specific skills related to the use of scientific instruments and devices (e.g. using microscopes or telescopes successfully).
OtherProject specificProject specificProject specific

From this table, Dierking (2008:23) then derives a simple worksheet for Developing Intended Impacts, Indicators & Evidence

worksheet for Developing Intended Impacts, Indicators & Evidence
ISE Category of ImpactPotential indicatorsEvidence that impact was attained
Awareness, knowledge or understanding of STEM concepts, processes or careers
Engagement or interest in STEM concepts, processes, or careers
Attitude towards STEM-related topics or capabilities
Behavior resulting from experience
Skills based on experience
Other (describe)

Types of evaluation

The NSF Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects workshop report (p. 17) identifies three types of evaluation. In addition to the usual formative and summative evaluation, they add front-end evaluation and remedial evaluation:

  • Front-end evaluation. This means asking questions to find out what your audience members already know, what they don't know, what they are interested in and what they are not interested in. Knowing these before you develop a project can save you from having to create unnecessary experiences, or from neglecting to treat subjects which are both interesting and needed.
  • Formative evaluation. Decades of uses of formative evaluation, which is iterative testing of learning strategies to improve them as they are developed, have proven invaluable over and over. No matter how well we imagine a strategy will work, it takes exposure to real audience members to discover just what actually works, and for whom. With formative evaluation, we can improve our strategies before they are set in concrete and become too expensive to change.
  • Remedial evaluation. Remedial evaluation requires discipline on our part: saving enough money and time so that we can look at our 'finished' products, investigate how audience members experience them, and make hopefully minor adjustments to improve (remediate) the end results. Remedial evaluation is concentrated near the end of a project, like summative evaluation, and may use the same tools. But the purpose of remedial evaluation is different: it is performed to make one last round of improvements to the project's deliverables, rather than to evaluate the impact of the project. Remedial evaluation can take place before, during or after summative evaluation, and may even use the same data.

(Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects, retrieved 16:57, 5 January 2012 (CET)).

3 Software

See also: List of citizen science software. Contents below will go away once we got this completed - Daniel K. Schneider (talk) 19:08, 28 November 2013 (CET)

3.1 Guides

Robert D. Stevenson et al. (2003) at the University of Massachusetts have developed open source software tools that enable nonexperts to produce customised field guides. Field guides are used to identify species, a task that is common to many projects.

  • R.D. Stevenson, et al. Electronic field guides and user communities in the eco-informatics revolution. Conserv. Ecol., 7 (2003), p. 3.

3.2 Volonteer computing

  • BOINC. Quote: 'Volunteer computing is an arrangement in which people (volunteers) provide computing resources to projects, which use the resources to do distributed computing and/or storage.' (What is volunteer computing?, 7/2013).

3.3 Data collection

  • Epicollect'provides a web application for the generation of forms and freely hosted project websites (using Google's AppEngine) for many kinds of mobile data collection projects. Data can be collected using multiple mobile phones running either the Android Operating system or the iPhone (using the EpiCollect mobile app) and all data can be synchronised from the phones and viewed centrally (using Google Maps) via the Project website or directly on the phones.' (nov 2012, by early 2013 there will be a new version). Data export in several formats.
  • Pathfinder (Luther et al. 2009: abstract) 'is an online environment that challenges this traditional division of labor by providing tools for citizen scientists to collaboratively discuss and analyze the data they collect.'. The design of pathfinder was inspired by three main phenomena: Complex online participation (e.g. Wikipedia or OSS), Argument mapping systems such as CompendiumLD and social data analysis (SDA), e.g. the sense.us system. There are two main components to Pathfinder: tracks (data sets) and discussions. Both are linked. In addition, pathfinder allows to annotate a pattern or trend found in data set as finding. Finally, every data set (trac)k page also contains comments and a basic wiki. The latter can be used for general casual discussions. 'The discussions component of Pathfinder allows users to engage in collaborative, structured analyses around tracks. Each discussion page is organized into three sections: the topic, responses to the topic, and an overview of these responses, displayed below the topic but before the responses themselves' (Luther et al., 2009: 242). Responses can be tagged as so-called 'Milestones', i.e. Questions, Hypotheses, Evidence (Pro or Con), Background, Prediction, Conclusion, or To-Do.
  • Ellul et al (2011) developed a Flexible Database-Centric Platform for Citizen Science Data Capture.

3.4 Human data analysis tasks

  • Zooniverse'and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance.' Zooniverse may include the largest collection of citizen science projects. The first project from which this framework was developed was GalaxyZoo.
  • pyBossa is a free, open-source, platform for creating and running crowd-sourcing applications that utilize online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more! (retrieved nov 12 2012)
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk can be used to find people. Usually for pay. See Experimental turk for experiments with that.

3.5 Social science experiments computing games

  • Xtribe.eu'is a web platform designed for scientific gaming and social computation. Its task is to help Researchers in the realization of web-experiments by accomplishing those necessary and tedious tasks involving the management of social resources (User registration, validation, selection and pairing). In this way Researchers shall focus entirely on the implementation of the core part of their experiment. On the Users side, everyone may join X-Tribe and enjoy the participation in entertaining scientific experiments.' (retrieved nov 12 2012)
  • experimental turk using Amazon's mechanical turk.

4 Links

All of these need to be updated ! Instead of doing that we will provide a whole new set of pages by the end of fall 2013 - Daniel K. Schneider (talk) 12:17, 15 July 2013 (CEST)

4.1 General

  • Citizen Science (Scientific American). Also includes a larger list of projects.

4.2 Organizations

  • Research2Practice, US web site for informal STEM education.
  • InformalScience.org. A resource and online community for informal learning projects, research and evaluation. (USA)
  • eSTEeM brings together STEM academics to promote innovation and scholarship (Open university, UK)
  • EC page on citizen science (including links to some EU projects and initiatives)

4.3 Index pages of projects

  • scistarter (Science we ca do together)
  • Spacehack, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration

4.4 On-line environments

  • foldit is described as 'a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.' I'd rather qualify it as en engaging cognitive tool.
  • Galaxy Zoo (Wikipedia)
  • Stardust@home (Wikipedia)
  • Clickworkers (Wikipedia)
  • Christmas Bird Count (Wikipedia)
  • Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology projects (Wikipedia)
  • CoCoRaHS (Wikipedia)
  • Mapping for change Its mission is to empower individuals and communities to make a difference to their local area through the use of mapping and the applications of geographical information. Also see Communitymaps.org

4.5 Learning

4.6 Evaluation

  • Informalscience.org/ is a resource and online community for informal learning projects, research and evaluation. It includes evaluations of several informal science learning projects
  • Friedman, A. (Ed.). (March 12, 2008). Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects [On-line]. http://informalscience.org/evaluations/eval_framework.pdf. Originally at: http://insci.org/resources/Eval_Framework.pdf (broken link)
  • The 2002 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation, NSF (USA) by Joy Frechtling Westat

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Clearly identifying the target groups, managing expectations, and working with the group rather than for the group are important elements discussed at the Summit. Specific techniques were also debated including gaming and competitions, engaging the traditional media to raise the profile and co-opt larger communities. How to maintain the momentum built remains nevertheless a challenge for most projects that have a finite funding frame.

Aside from the funding, bottom up initiatives like social street (http://www.socialstreet.it/) also depend strongly on the commitment of key individuals be developed and sustained.

4 Conclusions and Next Steps The Citizen science and Smart Cities Summit was a very useful opportunity to scope out the field of activity of these two sets of initiatives. The evidence presented shows the vitality

and diversity of the field but also a number of critical points:

Citizen science projects are more than collecting data: they are about raising awareness, building capacity, and strengthening communities.

Likewise, smart cities are not only about ICT, energy and transport infrastructures:

Smart cities are about smart citizens, who participate in their city's daily governance, are concerned about increasing the quality of life of their fellow-citizens, and about protecting their environment. Technology may facilitate but is no solution per se.

Unfortunately to date there seems to be little synergy between citizen science and smart cities initiatives, and there is little interoperability and reusability of the data, apps, and services developed in each project.

It is difficult to compare the results among citizen science, and smart cities projects or translate from one context to another.

The ephemeral nature of much of the data, which disappear short after the end of the projects, means lack of reproducibility of results and makes longitudinal analysis of time series challenging if not impossible.

There are challenges with respect to the analytical methods needed to integrate quantitative and qualitative data from heterogeneous sources that need further research.

Building and maintaining trust are key points of any citizen science or smart city project. There is a need to work with the community and not just for, or on, the community. It is critical not just to take (data, information, and knowledge) but to give back something that is valued by the community itself.

The development of citizen science associations in Europe and the US, as well as fora for smart cities to share experience, components, and tools are important developments that may address some of the points above. There are also actions through which the European

Commission Joint Research Centre can make an important contribution:

Map citizen science and smart cities projects, and generate a semantic network of concepts between the projects to facilitate search of related activities, and community building.

Provide a repository for citizen science and smart cities data (anonymised and aggregated), software, services, and applications so that they are maintained beyond the life of the projects they originate from, and made shareable and reusable.

Citizen Science and Smart Cities

Develop regional test beds for the analysis and integration of social and environmental data from heterogeneous sources, with a focus on quality of life and well-being.

Undertake comparative studies, and analyse issues related to scaling up to the European dimension.

Make available the JRC knowledge base on semantic interoperability, data models, and interoperability arrangements and standards to support citizen science and smart cities projects.

Partner with the European Citizen Science Association, and contribute to its interoperability activities.

Work towards making the JRC, and the European Commission, a champion of citizen participation in European science.

Some of the actions above have already been launched; others will be developed in the course of 2014, and will be reviewed in 2015. Together they will contribute to a new role of the JRC to support of citizen engagement in European science and policy.

5 Acknowledgement and Disclaimer We wish to thank all the participants in the meeting for their commitment to share experiences and ideas, and their inspiration.

The findings and conclusions presented in this report are the responsibility of the editors alone and do not necessarily represent those of the organisations participating in the meeting or the European Commission.

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ICT PSP27, the ICT Policy Support Programme, aims at stimulating smart sustainable and inclusive growth by accelerating the wider uptake and best use of innovative digital technologies and content by citizens, governments and businesses.

INTERREG IVC28 provides funding for interregional cooperation across Europe and its overall objective is to improve the effectiveness of regional policies and instruments.

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The report summarizes the presentations, discussions and main conclusions of the Citizen Science and Smart Cities Summit organised by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, on Feb 5-7, 2014. The Summit brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss connections, gaps and potential synergies between

these two emerging fields. In particular, the focus of the Summit was to explore:

The interoperability and reusability of data across citizen-centred projects (technical, organizational, legal perspectives), The relationships between Smart Cities and Citizen-centred projects, The interoperability with official data infrastructures, such as the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) of which JRC is the technical coordinator.

The report shows the vitality and diversity of the field though the experience of 27 different projects and initiatives. It identifies a set of actions that the JRC can take to foster the interoperability and reusability of citizen science and smart cities projects, and work towards making the JRC, and the European Commission, a champion of citizen participation in Europe.

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