Citizen enhanced open
science in the cultural
heritage sector
A collection of practices
in Belgium
Mariana Ziku and Katerina Zourou.
March 17, 2021
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable

Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Citizen
enhanced
open
science
citizen
science
contributing
to:
=
Open datasets

Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Scope: a review of practices
citizen science+ cultural heritage+ role of universities
● How can universities act as incubators of the next
generation open science citizens?
● How to connect user engagement generated through
civic participation with the open science cycle?
● How to move beyond an image of citizens as mere
data collectors (e.g. crowdsourcing) in a more actively
engaged process throughout stages of scholar
research?

Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Methodology
8 Belgian practices
(today’s presentation)
in Europe

Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
The O1
methodology

Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Today’s talk: focus on
Openness scope

Citizen science in the cultural
heritage sector
8 indicative initiatives in Belgium /
with Belgian partnerships
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable

Initiative 1
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Initiative 2
Memories workshops on
photographic heritage and
crowdsourcing annotation
Collection day series for citizens
sharing stories of migration and
travels

Initiative 3
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Initiative 4
Social platform offering tools
for participatory approaches in
European cultural heritage
Innovative approach to
aggregation and user experience
for Chinese CH in Europe

Initiative 5
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Initiative 6
Europeana XX: Education and
technology partners enriching
Europeana
Open platform of crowdsourcing
campaigns for collections’ metadata
fix and enrichment

Initiative 7
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Initiative 8
Citizen Science app for street
art documentation on the
Spotteron platform
Getuigenissen: Digitalisation and
transcription project of criminal court
interrogations in 18th-19th c. Belgium

Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Civic engagement
in Citizen Science
projects
Bonney et al. (2009) categorisation

REACH
Europeana
Migration
50’s in Europe
Kaleidoscope
PAGODE
Europeana XX
Type of Civic
Engagement
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
CrowdHeritage
Spotteron Artspots
Getuigenissen

Status
Report
Open metrics
Open-source soft/hardware
Open access results
General policy of content, active/archived
some/all eligible data
Data Exchange Agreement (Europeana CCo)
Number of references, edits, views
free/libre, “minimal computing”?
machine actionable data for research
Open data
Open access
Open metadata
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Openness scope of Citizen Science projects
Open file formats Suitable for long term preservation
good
poor
partly
Open documentation Datasheets for Datasets
Open datasets through e.g. a data dump, repository, API

REACH
Europeana
Migration
50’s in Europe
Kaleidoscope
PAGODE
Europeana XX
open-access
policy
Openness
Checklist
policy data
ownership
FAIR data
principles
Metrics
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
CrowdHeritage
Spotteron Artspots
Getuigenissen
No/not clear
Yes/clear
Partly

Data
Sovereignty
Quality
Assurance
QA forms including
domain knowledge
Open Science
Principles oriented for
data and for people
the CARE principles
Data Standards
and Protocols
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
Synthesis:
Open Data Governance / Open Science
in Citizen Science projects
Ethics
Standards Quality
Formalising a citizen
science data standard
the PPSR Core

Next steps
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
◂ Release of the full study in July 2021 (open access)
◂ Further research on FAIR principles as applied in
citizen science projects in the cultural heritage sector

Thank you!
Open Cultural Data in Citizen Science - Roundtable
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