Papers – Citizen Science Today

GeoKey – open infrastructure for community mapping and science

Oliver Roick, Mordechai (Muki) Haklay, and Clare D. Ellul — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:00:32 +0000

Abstract: The development of the geospatial web (GeoWeb) over the past decade opened up opportunities for collaborative mapping and large scale data collection at unprecedented scales. Projects such as OpenStreetMap, which engage hundreds of thousands of volunteers in different aspects of mapping physical and human-made objects, to eBird, which records millions of bird observations from...

Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience — Lessons from the Citizen Cyberlab Summit

Egle Marija Ramanauskaite and Mordechai (Muki) Haklay — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:00:31 +0000

Abstract: This article summarizes the Citizen Cyberlab (CCL) Summit, which took place at University of Geneva on 17-18th September 2015, and introduces the special issue on “Learning and Creativity in Citizen Science”. As the final event of a 3-year EU FP7 CCL project, the Summit sought to disseminate project results and reflect on the issue...