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Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research
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2012
arXiv
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The contributions of everyday individuals to significant research has grown dramatically beyond the early days of classical birdwatching and endeavors of amateurs of the 19th century. ...
In particular, we make the case that citizen science (CS) can be an important aspect of the scientific data analysis pipelines provided to scientists by observatories. ...
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the NASA contract, NAS5--26555, to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. for the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope at Space Telescope ...
arXiv:1202.2577v1
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Citizen consultations on science communication: A citizen science approach
2021
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review
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Asking them for suggestions on how to improve science communication and involving them in the dissemination efforts, CONCISE aims to put citizens at the core of the research process. ...
Citizen science is part of a wider trend in science and society of promoting two-way dialogue and engagement between scientists and the public, by involving citizens in the research process. ...
The White Paper on Citizen Science (Serrano-Sanz
et al., 2014, p. 8) defined it as «the general public
engagement in scientific research activities when
citizens actively contribute to science either ...
doi:10.7203/metode.12.17510
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Citizen Science in Archaeology
2014
American Antiquity
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Citizen science, as a process of volunteer participation through crowdsourcing, facilitates the creation of mass data sets needed to address subtle and large-scale patterns in complex phenomena. ...
Citizen science efforts in other field disciplines such as biology, geography, and astronomy indicate how new web-based interfaces can enhance and expand upon archaeologists' existing platforms of volunteer ...
This paper was inspired by conversations with my biology colleagues about the power of citizen science, and energized by the new models of public-professional engagement emerging in archaeology. ...
doi:10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.749749
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Citizen Science in Archaeology
2014
American Antiquity
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This paper was inspired by conversations with my biology colleagues about the power of citizen science, and energized by the new models of public-professional engagement emerging in archaeology. ...
Many thanks go to Tom Gillespie and Tom Smith for helpful conversations about sources; to Andrew Bevan for information on the British Museum's Bronze Age projects; to Timothy Matney and John MacGinnis ...
Models of Citizen Science in Astronomy The visible night sky is observed by people world-wide. ...
doi:10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.749
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Amateur Community and "Citizen Science"
2011
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
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The workshop discussed how "Citizen Science" fits into time-domain astronomy, what the roles of such volunteers might be, and how amateur astronomers can help in the new era of surveys. ...
Citizen Science is the act of collecting or analyzing data by enlisting the help of volunteers who may have no specific scientific training. ...
The Citizen Science workshop concentrated on the following questions: • What is the difference between crowd-sourcing and true citizen science, and their roles in TDA? ...
doi:10.1017/s1743921312000695
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Citizen Science Platforms
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2021
The Science of Citizen Science
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AbstractAdequate infrastructure for citizen science is constantly growing and has become increasingly important in providing support to citizen science activities, both nationally and internationally. ...
to different stakeholders, ranging from interested citizens to scientific institutions to authorities, politicians, and public media. ...
Citizen science platforms are also suitable for scientists to collect more data on citizen science and to conduct research on citizen science and for interested citizens to develop, lead, contribute, or ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_22
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A Citation Study of Citizen Science Projects in Space Science and Astronomy
2018
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
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This paper presents a citation study of 143 publications in refereed journals resulting from 23 citizen science (CS) projects in space science and astronomy. ...
papers in space science and astronomy. ...
Marc Kuchner (NASA Goddard Citizen Science Working Group) for his many helpful comments and suggestions, which significantly improved the clarity and accuracy of this work. ...
doi:10.5334/cstp.152
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Citizen Science and the Neoliberal Transformation of Science – an Ambivalent Relationship
2019
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
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Acknowledgements We would like to thank the members of our department "Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft" and especially Claudia Göbel for their constructive comments on the general issue and concrete paper ...
Most visible and well-researched is the contribution of citizen science to nature conservation. ...
of citizens contributing to science. ...
doi:10.5334/cstp.186
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Ideas for Citizen Science in Astronomy
2015
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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We review the relatively new, internet-enabled, and rapidly-evolving field of citizen science, focusing on research projects in stellar, extragalactic and solar system astronomy that have benefited from ...
In the coming years we expect participation and productivity in citizen astronomy to increase, as survey datasets get larger and citizen science platforms become more efficient. ...
Acknowledgments We are most grateful to the following people for their suggestions, comments, ...
doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-081913-035959
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Participants in Citizen Science
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2021
The Science of Citizen Science
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AbstractThe most important factor that defines citizen science is that non-professional scientists contribute to scientific research. ...
Projects may provide ways for participants to contribute to scientific research at different stages of the scientific process according to different levels of engagement. ...
research
Contribution to science
'I want to contribute to
science'
Teaching
Providing an educational opportunity to others
'I want to share my
knowledge and
experience'
Table 13 .2 13 Challenges ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_13
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Science Learning via Participation in Online Citizen Science
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2016
arXiv
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We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), including the astronomy projects Galaxy ...
We interpret this as evidence of learning of science content inspired by participation in online citizen science. ...
The project is running from September 2013 to September 2016. ...
arXiv:1601.05973v2
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Citizen Science in Austria
2019
Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare
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In this text, we will give a short introduction to citizen science, its connections to open science, and the developments of citizen science in Austria in the last years and in the future? ...
Whereas in open science lay people don't have to be involved in a project necessarily, citizen science often uses open science methods and tools to make this active involvement possible. ...
actors, displays citizen science projects to an interested public and aims to foster and secure the quality of citizen science research [8] . ...
doi:10.31263/voebm.v72i2.2836
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Science learning via participation in online citizen science
2016
JCOM: Journal of Science Communication
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We interpret this as evidence of learning of science content inspired by participation in online citizen science. ...
We use econometric methods to test how measures of project participation relate to success in a science quiz, controlling for factors known to correlate with scientific knowledge. ...
Acknowledgments The Zooniverse projects in this study were built thanks to support by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. ...
doi:10.22323/2.15030207
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"Academic Detailing" and "Citizen Science"
2012
Optometry and Vision Science
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Citizen science projects continue to grow in popularity, providing Identifying Opportunities in Citizen Science for Academic Libraries ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to acknowledge our colleagues at the Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County: Richard Smart (Citizen Science Program Coordinator), Lila Higgins (Citizen ...
Science Manager), and Richard Hulser (Chief Librarian), who were instrumental in our event planning and have greatly enriched our understanding of citizen science. ...
doi:10.1097/opx.0b013e31824dabf3
pmid:22362303
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Citizen Science in Ireland
2021
Frontiers in Communication
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If citizen science is embraced as a truly social and participatory innovation, Ireland has the chance to not only dramatically improve its citizen science output, but to also become a model of best practice ...
This cataloging of contemporary citizen science will be compared to the awareness of citizen science in the Irish education system at primary, post-primary, and university level. ...
for a new portfolio of "Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth", she recognized the significant contributions that large numbers of empowered citizens have made to scientific progress and committed ...
doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.629065
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