Citizen science has grown significantly due to societal and technological trends. Increased education levels, leisure time, and sharing economies have empowered more people to engage in scientific work. Advances like broadband internet, mobile devices, and DIY electronics have also facilitated participation. Current citizen science involves collaborative problem definition and data collection between citizens and scientists. Government agencies and policies are increasingly recognizing the value of citizen science data. Further development is still needed regarding sustainable funding models, data standards, and expanding citizen science to new domains.
Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
Eye on Earth Summit - Data Revolution plenary Muki Haklay
The presentation explores the place for extreme citizen science within the landscape of citizen science in general. The first half looks at the history of citizen science and highlights the education transition that happened while citizen science evolved , while the second half explains what is extreme citizen science and the roles of the technological tools that have been developed within the ExCiteS group, with an open invitation for others to join the effort.
Extreme Citizen Science: Current Development Muki Haklay
Slides from a talk to UCL Institute of Global Prosperity soundbites event - 5th November 2015.
With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively and fairly.
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this talk, Muki will discuss the work of UCL Extreme Citizen Science group within the wider context of the developments in the field of citizen science.He will cover the work that ExCiteS has already done, currently developing and plans for the future.
https://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/igp-events-pub/muki-haklay-extreme-citizen-science
What is Extreme Citizen Science? Volunteerism & Publicly Initiated Scientific...Cindy Regalado
This presentation briefly illustrates the state of citizen science our approach in Extreme Citizen Science. We present two examples under this research group at University College London: Publicly Initiated Scientific Research and the Socio-demographics of Volunteerism
#FuturePub - Citizen Science, Open Science & scientific publicationsMuki Haklay
Slides from a short talk at the #FuturePub 7 event, London, 10 May 2016. Covering a bit of background of citizen science, explaining the link to open science, and issues of scientific publishing that emerge from these interactions
Haw GIScience lost its interdisciplinary mojo?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from my talk at the GISCience 2016 conference. There is more information on my blog, but the abstract is:
Over the past 25 years, I have experienced an inside track view of two interdisciplinary research fields: Geographical Information Science (GIScience) and Citizen Science. Over that period, I was also involved in about 20 multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary projects. As a result, I also found myself evaluating and funding x-disciplinary projects.
On the basis of these experiences, I’d argue that Interdisciplinarity is always hard, risky, require compromises, accommodations, listening, and making mistakes. The excitement from the outputs and outcomes does not always justify the price. Frequently, there is no-follow on project – it’s been too exhausting.
Considering the project level challenges, viewing interdisciplinary areas of studies emerging is especially interesting. You can notice how concepts are being argued and agreed on. You can see what is inside and what is outside, and where the boundary is drawn. You can see how methodologies, jargon, acceptable behaviour, and modes of operations get accepted or rejected – and from the inside, you can nudge the field and sometimes see the impact of your actions.
GIScience was born as an interdisciplinary field of study, and the period of consolidation that I have seen was supposed to lead to stability and growth. This did not happen. Take any measure that you like: size of conferences, papers – or even the argument if the field deserve a Wikipedia page. Something didn’t work.
In contrast, Citizen Science is already attracting to its conferences audience in the many hundreds – the Citizen Science Association include 4000 (free) members, The European Citizen Science Association 180 (paid) – and that is in the first 2 years since they’ve established.
In the talk, I explore the way in which interdisciplinary projects and fields work, highlight the similarities and differences, and suggest the issues that have led to the outcomes that we see today
Slides from my talk in the European Citizen Science Conference in Berlin, May 2016. The talk look at issues of participation, citizen science and open science, and a bit about implications. It's about participation inequality and educational attainment of participants
Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engage...Muki Haklay
These slides are from a keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference in 2016, about citizen science and extreme citizen science, and their link to geographical technologies
Citizen science - theory, practice & policy workshopMuki Haklay
These slides are from a 3.5h workshop, as part of the Israeli Geographical Association, Jerusalem, 14 Dec 2015. The workshop provided knowledge of the field of citizen science and current trends that influence it; Helped participants to understand the principles and practical aspects of designing a citizen science project; Included a session with hands-on experience of citizen science activity; Learn about additional resources that can be used to design and run citizen science projects; Understand the policy trends that are influencing the field.
Many of the slides are from previous talks with organisation and ordered in a way that they are suitable for the workshop
Eye on Earth Summit - Data Revolution plenary Muki Haklay
The presentation explores the place for extreme citizen science within the landscape of citizen science in general. The first half looks at the history of citizen science and highlights the education transition that happened while citizen science evolved , while the second half explains what is extreme citizen science and the roles of the technological tools that have been developed within the ExCiteS group, with an open invitation for others to join the effort.
Extreme Citizen Science: Current Development Muki Haklay
Slides from a talk to UCL Institute of Global Prosperity soundbites event - 5th November 2015.
With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively and fairly.
Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world.
In this talk, Muki will discuss the work of UCL Extreme Citizen Science group within the wider context of the developments in the field of citizen science.He will cover the work that ExCiteS has already done, currently developing and plans for the future.
https://www.igp.ucl.ac.uk/igp-events-pub/muki-haklay-extreme-citizen-science
What is Extreme Citizen Science? Volunteerism & Publicly Initiated Scientific...Cindy Regalado
This presentation briefly illustrates the state of citizen science our approach in Extreme Citizen Science. We present two examples under this research group at University College London: Publicly Initiated Scientific Research and the Socio-demographics of Volunteerism
#FuturePub - Citizen Science, Open Science & scientific publicationsMuki Haklay
Slides from a short talk at the #FuturePub 7 event, London, 10 May 2016. Covering a bit of background of citizen science, explaining the link to open science, and issues of scientific publishing that emerge from these interactions
Haw GIScience lost its interdisciplinary mojo?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from my talk at the GISCience 2016 conference. There is more information on my blog, but the abstract is:
Over the past 25 years, I have experienced an inside track view of two interdisciplinary research fields: Geographical Information Science (GIScience) and Citizen Science. Over that period, I was also involved in about 20 multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary projects. As a result, I also found myself evaluating and funding x-disciplinary projects.
On the basis of these experiences, I’d argue that Interdisciplinarity is always hard, risky, require compromises, accommodations, listening, and making mistakes. The excitement from the outputs and outcomes does not always justify the price. Frequently, there is no-follow on project – it’s been too exhausting.
Considering the project level challenges, viewing interdisciplinary areas of studies emerging is especially interesting. You can notice how concepts are being argued and agreed on. You can see what is inside and what is outside, and where the boundary is drawn. You can see how methodologies, jargon, acceptable behaviour, and modes of operations get accepted or rejected – and from the inside, you can nudge the field and sometimes see the impact of your actions.
GIScience was born as an interdisciplinary field of study, and the period of consolidation that I have seen was supposed to lead to stability and growth. This did not happen. Take any measure that you like: size of conferences, papers – or even the argument if the field deserve a Wikipedia page. Something didn’t work.
In contrast, Citizen Science is already attracting to its conferences audience in the many hundreds – the Citizen Science Association include 4000 (free) members, The European Citizen Science Association 180 (paid) – and that is in the first 2 years since they’ve established.
In the talk, I explore the way in which interdisciplinary projects and fields work, highlight the similarities and differences, and suggest the issues that have led to the outcomes that we see today
Slides from my talk in the European Citizen Science Conference in Berlin, May 2016. The talk look at issues of participation, citizen science and open science, and a bit about implications. It's about participation inequality and educational attainment of participants
Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engage...Muki Haklay
These slides are from a keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference in 2016, about citizen science and extreme citizen science, and their link to geographical technologies
The role of learning in citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This is a presentation from the citizen science impact event at the Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/citizen-science-impact-event-at-the-open-university/
Citizen science offer different levels of engagement to participants, which have been captured in typologies of the field (contributory, collaborative, co-created, collegial / crowdsourcing, distributed intelligence, participatory science, extreme citizen science). These typologies do no explicitly examine learning. At the same time, projects and activities striving to fulfil multiple goals (excellent scientific output, satisfying engagement, good recruitment, learning …). Within ythe range of citizen science project, we can consider different aspects of learning that are occurring in them, Projects and use examples from a range of project, and raise some aspects that can help those who are designing co-created projects.
Extreme Citizen Science: the socio-political potential of citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Slides from a talk at the International Congress for Conservation Biology / European Congress for Conservation Biology 2015 (Montpellier 2-6 August). The talk positioned citizen science within the wider context of production and use of environmental information, and emphasised the need to extend citizen science to a wider audience. It also demonstrated how technology can be used within a careful participatory process.
Paper from the Programmable City workshop data and the city. See more details on my blog at http://wp.me/p7DNf-sX for description of the workshop. The paper explores the link between citizen science and philosophy of technology
Algorithmic governance in environmental information (or how technophilia shap...Muki Haklay
Presentation from a workshop in Galway, March 2016. Showing the history of linkage between environmental decision making and information systems, and the opportunities and challenges that this creates. Also the problem in terms of public access and use of information
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
Into the Night - Citizen Science Training day - introduction to citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Setting, running and evaluating - In this session, we will provide a brief overview of the types of citizen science that are relevant in addressing environmental challenges. We will look at classifications of citizen science projects, explore their potential goals, the process of recruitment and retention as well as the need to start project evaluation from an early stage. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider how these elements can be used in the design of a citizen science project.
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies of p...Muki Haklay
A persistent question about participatory methodologies that rely on technologies, such as public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), is how to integrate values, such as inclusiveness of all the people that are impacted by a decision, or identifying options that are popular by the majority but acceptable to the minority, within technologically focused projects. Moreover, technologies do not operate by themselves – they are embedded in organizational, political, and social processes that set how they are used, who can use them, and in what context. Therefore, we should explore where the values reside?
Two factors obscure our view: The misleading conceptualisation that technologies are value free, and can be used for good or for bad – which put all the weight on the process, and ignores the way in which any technology allow only certain actions to be taken. Another popular view of technology conceptualisation is to emphasise their advantages (upside) and ignore their limitations. If we move beyond these, and other “common sense” views of technologies, we can notice how process and technology intertwine.
We can therefore look at the way the process/technology reinforce and limit each other, and the way that the values are integrated and influence them. With this analysis, we can also consider how technological development can explicitly include considerations of values, and be philosophically, politically, and social-theory informed. We need to consider the roles, skills, and knowledge of the people that are involved in each part of the process – from community facilitation to software development.
The paper will draw on the experience of developing participatory geographic information technologies over the past 20 years, and will suggest future directions for values-based participatory technology development.
What happens when instead of asking the crowd for help, the question of what is explored is handed over to the participants?
The potential of bottom-up citizen science has increased dramatically in the past decade. To understand this, we can look at the societal and technological changes that led to this proliferation, and then explore the challenges, risks and opportunities that this approach presents.
This seminar will also be live webcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqY8Jv5r4bs
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
The talk will cover the concepts behing COST Action IC1203 - a European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC). The network emerged from the realisation that new and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated Web content. The integration and application of these sources, often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Action targets fundamental scientific and technological advances by establishing a European network of excellence on Geoweb technologies. The Action focus on VGI and gather efforts carried out in an innovative and under-exploited field of Web research and knowledge production.
In the talk special attention will be paid to the differences between OSM, VGI and Citizen Science, and suggesting 'code of engagement' with OpenStreetMap that are relevant to many other volunteering projects
A talk exploring the different ways to analyse the policy aspects of citizen science, especially from the persepctive of environmental protection agencies in Europe. More information at http://wp.me/p7DNf-mE
The role of learning in community science and citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This are slides from the talk on 12 Oct, Joint workshop of the Teaching and Learning and Citizen Science Special Interest Groups of the British Ecological Society, which was held on 12th October 2018 at the University of Reading. The talk explores links between learning and citizen science - contributory and collegial in particular. This is an improved version of the Citizen Inquiry slides
Extreme Citizen Science technologies: attempting to embed values in codeMuki Haklay
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world. The ExCiteS group at UCL was set up to support the implementation of this concept through the development of theories, methodologies, processes, and technologies that allow any community, regardless of (technical) literacy, to engage in citizen science projects that produce results that are meaningful and useful for them. Stemming from theoretical foundations in participatory action research and public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), our technologies are designed to carry values with them. Once we visit these values, we can see how they turn into code, and ask how successful these efforts are, using cases in the Amazon, Congo-basin, Namibia, UK, and Malta.
Citizen Science in Open Science context: measuring & understanding impacts of...Muki Haklay
Within the emerging European agenda for open science, deeper public engagement with science, through citizen science, is now part and parcel of Horizon Europe. Yet, there are many issues that need to be understood – the uneven landscape of citizen science across the European Research Area, scientific disciplines, and institutions; the balancing of multiple goals that citizen science projects enact between raising awareness to scientific issues to producing data and analysis that can lead to top discoveries; measuring and assessing the outcomes and outputs of projects; and consideration about the data, analysis, and outputs. The talk will provide a short introduction to citizen science and modes of engagement in it, introduce the “Doing It Together Science” (DITOs) escalator model; and review some of the emerging policy responses to citizen science across the world.
citizen science - a brief introduction Muki Haklay
Presentation by Muki Haklay in a participatory virtual workshop June 2020. The presentation provided an overview of the types of activities that fall under the umbrella term citizen science - from activities that people do at home using the computers and the internet (volunteer computing or volunteer thinking) to ecological monitoring of landscape change in an opportunistic way. The presentation also pointed out to the multiple goals of citizen science projects - from engaging people in environmental issues, to providing opportunities to disadvantaged groups in society. The level of participation across projects was also highlighted, indicating that as requirements and knowledge increase, the number of people that are currently engaged in citizen science project decreases.
The role of learning in citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This is a presentation from the citizen science impact event at the Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/opentel/citizen-science-impact-event-at-the-open-university/
Citizen science offer different levels of engagement to participants, which have been captured in typologies of the field (contributory, collaborative, co-created, collegial / crowdsourcing, distributed intelligence, participatory science, extreme citizen science). These typologies do no explicitly examine learning. At the same time, projects and activities striving to fulfil multiple goals (excellent scientific output, satisfying engagement, good recruitment, learning …). Within ythe range of citizen science project, we can consider different aspects of learning that are occurring in them, Projects and use examples from a range of project, and raise some aspects that can help those who are designing co-created projects.
Extreme Citizen Science: the socio-political potential of citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Slides from a talk at the International Congress for Conservation Biology / European Congress for Conservation Biology 2015 (Montpellier 2-6 August). The talk positioned citizen science within the wider context of production and use of environmental information, and emphasised the need to extend citizen science to a wider audience. It also demonstrated how technology can be used within a careful participatory process.
Paper from the Programmable City workshop data and the city. See more details on my blog at http://wp.me/p7DNf-sX for description of the workshop. The paper explores the link between citizen science and philosophy of technology
Algorithmic governance in environmental information (or how technophilia shap...Muki Haklay
Presentation from a workshop in Galway, March 2016. Showing the history of linkage between environmental decision making and information systems, and the opportunities and challenges that this creates. Also the problem in terms of public access and use of information
The Willing Volunteer – Incorporating Voluntary Data into National DatabasesMuki Haklay
At present few mapping databases contain crowd sourced or voluntary data. Consider how, in the future, this will be a valuable source of data for national geospatial, cadastral and mapping agencies
Into the Night - Citizen Science Training day - introduction to citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Setting, running and evaluating - In this session, we will provide a brief overview of the types of citizen science that are relevant in addressing environmental challenges. We will look at classifications of citizen science projects, explore their potential goals, the process of recruitment and retention as well as the need to start project evaluation from an early stage. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider how these elements can be used in the design of a citizen science project.
Examining the values that are embedded in the processes and technologies of p...Muki Haklay
A persistent question about participatory methodologies that rely on technologies, such as public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), is how to integrate values, such as inclusiveness of all the people that are impacted by a decision, or identifying options that are popular by the majority but acceptable to the minority, within technologically focused projects. Moreover, technologies do not operate by themselves – they are embedded in organizational, political, and social processes that set how they are used, who can use them, and in what context. Therefore, we should explore where the values reside?
Two factors obscure our view: The misleading conceptualisation that technologies are value free, and can be used for good or for bad – which put all the weight on the process, and ignores the way in which any technology allow only certain actions to be taken. Another popular view of technology conceptualisation is to emphasise their advantages (upside) and ignore their limitations. If we move beyond these, and other “common sense” views of technologies, we can notice how process and technology intertwine.
We can therefore look at the way the process/technology reinforce and limit each other, and the way that the values are integrated and influence them. With this analysis, we can also consider how technological development can explicitly include considerations of values, and be philosophically, politically, and social-theory informed. We need to consider the roles, skills, and knowledge of the people that are involved in each part of the process – from community facilitation to software development.
The paper will draw on the experience of developing participatory geographic information technologies over the past 20 years, and will suggest future directions for values-based participatory technology development.
What happens when instead of asking the crowd for help, the question of what is explored is handed over to the participants?
The potential of bottom-up citizen science has increased dramatically in the past decade. To understand this, we can look at the societal and technological changes that led to this proliferation, and then explore the challenges, risks and opportunities that this approach presents.
This seminar will also be live webcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqY8Jv5r4bs
Into the Night - Technology for citizen scienceMuki Haklay
Current citizen science seems effortless...just download an app and start using it. However, there are many technical aspects that are necessary to make a citizen science project work. In this session, we will provide an overview of all the technical elements that are required - from the process of designing an app., to designing and managing a back-end system, to testing the system end to end before deployment. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a short exercise to consider the design of an app for a citizen science project that addresses light pollution.
The talk will cover the concepts behing COST Action IC1203 - a European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC). The network emerged from the realisation that new and unprecedented sources of geographic information have recently become available in the form of user-generated Web content. The integration and application of these sources, often termed volunteered geographic information (VGI), offers multidisciplinary scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Action targets fundamental scientific and technological advances by establishing a European network of excellence on Geoweb technologies. The Action focus on VGI and gather efforts carried out in an innovative and under-exploited field of Web research and knowledge production.
In the talk special attention will be paid to the differences between OSM, VGI and Citizen Science, and suggesting 'code of engagement' with OpenStreetMap that are relevant to many other volunteering projects
A talk exploring the different ways to analyse the policy aspects of citizen science, especially from the persepctive of environmental protection agencies in Europe. More information at http://wp.me/p7DNf-mE
The role of learning in community science and citizen scienceMuki Haklay
This are slides from the talk on 12 Oct, Joint workshop of the Teaching and Learning and Citizen Science Special Interest Groups of the British Ecological Society, which was held on 12th October 2018 at the University of Reading. The talk explores links between learning and citizen science - contributory and collegial in particular. This is an improved version of the Citizen Inquiry slides
Extreme Citizen Science technologies: attempting to embed values in codeMuki Haklay
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world. The ExCiteS group at UCL was set up to support the implementation of this concept through the development of theories, methodologies, processes, and technologies that allow any community, regardless of (technical) literacy, to engage in citizen science projects that produce results that are meaningful and useful for them. Stemming from theoretical foundations in participatory action research and public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), our technologies are designed to carry values with them. Once we visit these values, we can see how they turn into code, and ask how successful these efforts are, using cases in the Amazon, Congo-basin, Namibia, UK, and Malta.
Citizen Science in Open Science context: measuring & understanding impacts of...Muki Haklay
Within the emerging European agenda for open science, deeper public engagement with science, through citizen science, is now part and parcel of Horizon Europe. Yet, there are many issues that need to be understood – the uneven landscape of citizen science across the European Research Area, scientific disciplines, and institutions; the balancing of multiple goals that citizen science projects enact between raising awareness to scientific issues to producing data and analysis that can lead to top discoveries; measuring and assessing the outcomes and outputs of projects; and consideration about the data, analysis, and outputs. The talk will provide a short introduction to citizen science and modes of engagement in it, introduce the “Doing It Together Science” (DITOs) escalator model; and review some of the emerging policy responses to citizen science across the world.
citizen science - a brief introduction Muki Haklay
Presentation by Muki Haklay in a participatory virtual workshop June 2020. The presentation provided an overview of the types of activities that fall under the umbrella term citizen science - from activities that people do at home using the computers and the internet (volunteer computing or volunteer thinking) to ecological monitoring of landscape change in an opportunistic way. The presentation also pointed out to the multiple goals of citizen science projects - from engaging people in environmental issues, to providing opportunities to disadvantaged groups in society. The level of participation across projects was also highlighted, indicating that as requirements and knowledge increase, the number of people that are currently engaged in citizen science project decreases.
Building centre event "mapping for making" Muki Haklay
Description of current activities of Mapping for Change, and the new community mapping system, as well as other technologies are being used in community mapping and citizen science.
OpenStreetMap Completeness for England 03/10Muki Haklay
Set of maps which show the completeness of OpenStreetMap when compared to Ordnance Survey Meridian 2 database. For more details, see povesham.wordpress.com
Citizen Observatories: Mapping for Change air quality studiesMuki Haklay
Slides from the Citizens Observatories conference in Brussels, covering citizen science for community empowerment. The talk focuses on Mapping for Change work with 20 groups in London. Data management and tools are also covered.
Beyond good enough? Spatial Data Quality and OpenStreetMap dataMuki Haklay
State of the Map '09 presentation. Covering spatial data quality and comparison of Ordnance Survey data (Meridian 2, 10K Raster, MasterMap ITN) to OSM for England.
Some material appeared in previous presentation.
Volunteered Geographic Information and OpenStreetMapchippy
Short introduction to the subject of Volunteered Geographic Information and outlining some of the characteristics, issues themes of VGI
and then a comprehensive talk about the OpenStreetMap Project.
By Tim Waters, at AGI Northern Group (SIG), April 2009, Manchester University
Presented at the 46th Society of Cartographers Summer School in Manchester on September 10 2010. The abstract for the talk was as follows: "OpenStreetMap is coming of age, but as it starts to be used more in the mainstream, the age-old questions of quality and completeness are coming to the fore. A range of data sources have been used to build up the map in the UK, from GPS traces to aerial imagery, historic mapping, NaPTAN and the OS Open Data release, each with their own benefits and limitations. This talk looks at a number of studies and tools developed to quantify, compare and address accuracy and coverage of the project in the UK, in an attempt to answer the key questions - is it complete yet and just how good is it?"
EEO/AGI-Scotland 2015: Citizen Science and GIScience - background and common ...Muki Haklay
These are slides from a talk at Edinburgh EEO/AGI-Scotland seminar. The talk explores how Geographic Information Science (GIScience) can contribute to citizen science, and what citizen science can contribute to GIScience.
Gitte Kragh: Citizen science: Overview, origins and opportunities through a m...Gitte Kragh
Gitte Kragh 2019 Oct 30th at Center for Science Studies Aarhus University colloquium. Presentation titled Citizen science: Overview, origins and opportunities through a motivational lens
Citation: O Riordan, N. 2013. An initial exploration of Citizen Science. NUIG Whitaker Institute Working Paper Series.
A working paper summarising the latest research on citizen science and its relationship with open innovation and the wisdom of crowds. Considers well known cases of citizen science including Galaxy Zoo. Identifies key research questions for future study.
Open Science and Citizen Science - researcher, participants, and institutiona...Muki Haklay
Presentation from the OECD workshop on 9th April 2018, GSF-NESTI Workshop on "Reconciling Scientific Excellence and Open Science" asked the question "What do we want out of science and how can we incentivise and monitor these outputs?". The talk covers the personal experience as a researcher, the experience of participants in citizen science projects, and the institutional aspects.
The power of cs in education moraitopoulou elina republica 2017Elina MORAITOPOULOU
Rapidly advancing scientific research is among the main transforming actors of our societies today. Citizen Science can promote public awareness, encourage meaningful contribution to research projects and empower local and global communities. How can we rethink school education through the prism of Citizen Science? And how can we start from schools to re-establish the links between scientific research and society, while promoting awareness and collaboration?
link to oral presentation >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2Y-o3uM-c&t=264s
This hour-long webinar introduces citizen science and opportunities for citizen science programming in 4-H contexts. It offers an overview of the wide diversity of citizen science projects (from astronomy to zoonotic diseases), outlines different participation opportunities (one-day events through individual inquiry), shares examples of what peers are doing across 4-H settings, and provides links to resources for getting started.
The webinar is a collaboration between 4-H experts in STEM and Youth Development (Nancy Schaff, NY; Jay Staker, IO; and Trudy Dunham, MN) and staff from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Jennifer Shirk, Ileana Betancourt, and Jennifer Fee).
Article by Dave Sammut. "Chemistry in Australia" magazine, August 2015
Riding on the ICT revolution, recruiting public help for research is on the rise, bringing benefits for both scientists and non-scientists
An overview of citizen science including the diversity of projects and people involved. Includes a nod towards the potential influence citizen scientists may have on policy matters .
The ECSA Characteristics of Citizen ScienceMargaret Gold
An overview of the work and outcomes on the ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science - full notes on https://zenodo.org/communities/citscicharacteristics
Environmental Information: The Roles of Experts and the PublicMuki Haklay
Slides from a talk at Wilson Center, Washington DC, April 2014
Access to environmental information and use of it for environmental decision making are central pillars of environmental democracy. Yet, not much attention is paid to the question of who is producing it, and for whom? By examining the history of environmental information, since NEPA in 1969, three eras can be identified: information produced by experts, for experts (1969-1992); information produced by experts, to be shared by experts and the public (1992-2011); and finally, information produced by experts and the public to be shared by experts and the public.
Underlying these are changes in access to information, rise in levels of education and rapid change due to digital technologies. The three eras and their implication to environmental decision making will be explored, with special attention to the role of geographical information and geographical information systems and to citizen science.
This is a citizen science overview particularly aimed at graduate students enrolled in a new course at Arizona State University, aptly titled "Citizen Science." The author of this presentation, and course instructor, Darlene Cavalier, will talk students through its nuances and intersections with science, technology, and society.
Devising a citizen science monitoring programme for tree regeneration the upl...Muki Haklay
Presentation by Chris Andrews from a participatory virtual workshop June 2020 on citizen science in the Cairngorms national park. Aims of presentation: To provide a background information as to what's going on ecologically in the uplands; To explore why some upland habitats might be changing; Example of what could be done through a case study at the ECN Cairngorm long-term monitoring site; Provide a framework in which to think about what variables might be useful to citizen science project on monitoring regeneration.
The value of citizen science for environmental monitoring in ScotlandMuki Haklay
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Citizen Science as a tool to support land management in the Cairngorms Nation...Muki Haklay
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Overview of Citizen Science - Zurich November 2015
1. Citizen Science – an Overview
Muki Haklay
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group, UCL
@mhaklay
2. Outline
• Citizen Science in a historical perspective – underlying
trends
• Current activities in the area of Citizen Science
• Policy awareness and recognition
• Where next?
3. Positioning Citizen Science
• The usual line: ‘citizen science is not new, predating
modern science’ is only partially true
• Societal and technological trends reveal the difference
from past public engagement in scientific research …
… but also the limitations
4. Citizen Science (OED 2014)
citizen science n. scientific work undertaken by members of the
general public, often in collaboration with or under the direction
of professional scientists and scientific institutions.
citizen scientist n. (a) a scientist whose work is characterized by
a sense of responsibility to serve the best interests of the wider
community (now rare); (b) a member of the general public who
engages in scientific work, often in collaboration with or under the
direction of professional scientists and scientific institutions; an
amateur scientist.
5. Citizen Science & Science
Early science
(1600’s – early 1800’s)
Professional science
(late 1800’s – 1900’s)
Opening Science
(since 2000s)
6. Citizen Science & Science
Early science
(1600’s – earl 1800’s)
Professional science
(late 1800’s – 1900’s)
Opening Science
(since 2000s)
Illiteracy
Basic to
High-school
Higher
Education
7. Citizen Science & Science
Early science
(1600’s – early 1800’s)
Professional science
(late 1800’s – 1900’s)
Opening Science
(since 2000s)
Illiteracy
Basic to
High-school
Higher
Education
Citizen Science
as Gentlemen/
Gentlewomen
science
Mary Anning (1799-1847)
19. A new era of citizen science
Haklay, M., 2013, Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information –
overview and typology of participation in Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge
Citizen Science
Citizen
Cyberscience
Volunteer
computing
Volunteer
thinking
Long running Citizen
Science
Ecology &
biodiversity
Meteorology Astronomy
Community Science
Environmental
Justice
Community-
based
participatory
research
Civic Science
24. Community/Civic Science
– Early warning system (~30 Volunteers)
– Visual observations, Ash collection,
Equipment maintenance
– Communicate information from scientists
community
– Organise community response
Stone., J., et al. 2014, Risk reduction through community-based monitoring: the vigías of
Tungurahua, Ecuador Journal of Applied Volcanology
31. Participation in citizen science
• Collaborative science – problem
definition, data collection and analysis
Level 4 ‘Extreme/
Up-Science’
• Participation in problem definition
and data collection
Level 3 ‘Participatory
science’
• Citizens as basic interpreters
Level 2 ‘Distributed
intelligence’
• Citizens as sensors
Level 1
‘Crowdsourcing’
Haklay. 2013. Citizen Science and volunteered geographic information: Overview
and typology of participation, Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge
32. Citizen Science & Science
Early science
(1600’s – early 1800’s)
Professional science
(late 1800’s – 1900’s)
Opening Science
(since 2000s)
Illiteracy
Basic to
High-school
Higher
Education
Citizen Science
as Gentlemen/
Gentlewomen
science
Citizen Science
diminishing
Citizen Science as
open & inclusive
science
33. Policy response
• Emergence of crowdsourcing/peer-production since 2005
created new information interactions between the
public and government:
– Public → Government
– Government → Public → Government
– Public → Government→ Public
Public Government
34. European Environment Agency
• Prof. Jacquie McGlade, head of European Environment
Agency, 2008 (Aarhus + 10):
‘Often the best information comes from those who are
closest to it, and it is important we harness this local
knowledge if we are to tackle climate change adequately…
people are encouraged to give their own opinion on the
quality of the beach and water, to supplement the official
information.’
35.
36. EEA Work Programme 2014-18
• As Part of Strategic Area 3 activities:
‘to widen and deepen the European knowledge base by
developing communities of practice and engaging in
partnerships with stakeholders beyond Eionet, such as
business and research communities, Civil Society
Organisations (CSO), and initiatives concerning lay, local
and traditional knowledge and citizen science’
37. Eye on Earth Alliance 2015
• An alliance with AGEDI, UNEP, GEO, WRI & IUCN :
information for sustainable development.
… Citizen Science was a major focus area
within the Summit agenda and there was general
consensus that reporting against SDGs must
include citizen science data. To this end, a
global coalition of citizen science groups will
be established by the relevant actors and the
Eye on Earth Alliance will continue to engage
citizen science groups …
38. Policy indicators
• Scotland Environmental Protection Agency strategic
commitment
• UK Environmental Observation Framework Working group
• UK Government Tree Health Strategy
• German Citizen Science Strategy 2020
• USA Federal toolkit for citizen science
• USA proposed Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act
• Citizen Science Association, European Citizen Science
Association, Australian Citizen Science Association …
39. What’s next?
• Sustainable funding, best practices, organisational
legitimacy
• Data management and curation, interoperability
standards
• Expanding to more knowledge domains (e.g. citizen
social science)
… ending the questions aoubt data quality and motivations
40. • Follow us:
– http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites
– Twitter: @UCL_ExCiteS
– Blog: http://uclexcites.wordpress.com
• The work of ExCiteS is supported
by EPSRC, EU FP7, RGS, Esri, FPP,
Forests Monitor, WRI and all the
communities that we’ve worked
with over the years