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Citizen Science for Research Libraries – A Guide

The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group is producing a guide for Citizen science in Research Libraries. The publication is designed to be a practical and compact gateway for the purpose of assisting research libraries to start setting up a Citizen Science programme.

The guide will address the unique context of research libraries – as becoming the ‘go to place’ for the new and exciting Open Science data world that is opening up to the wider public. It will be comprised of four sections – two of which are already published:

  1. Skills: Citizen Science skills development for staff, researchers, and the public – section editor Jitka Stilund Hansen, Technical University of Denmark. Available to read here. 
  2. Infrastructures: As being active in the development of infrastructure for researchers to carry out Citizen Science – section editor Kirsty Wallis, University College London. Available to read here. 
  3. Good [open] scientific practice: as managing bodies around knowledge libraries that can translate good [Open Science] scholarly practice into new Citizen Science fields – section editor Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Open Humans Foundation. Coming summer 2023.
  4. Guidelines: develop guidelines for Citizen Science activities involving the library – section editor TBD. Coming autumn 2023.

 

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Citizen Science Guide – Section 1: Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public

Posted 25-11-2021
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Citizen Science Guide — Section 2: Library Infrastructures and Citizen Science

Posted 02-06-2023
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Section 1: Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public

Book Information

#CS4RL

An open access and peer-reviewed book

Section Editor Jitka Stilund Hansen

Part of the four part book series: Citizen Science for Research Libraries — A Guide

Published by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group

© 2021 the authors. Licensed Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

Read online, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25815/hf0m-2a57

ISBN Print: 978-87-94233-59-0    

ISBN eBook: 978-87-94233-60-6 

A practical guide designed to assist those organising and participating in a citizen science project to get the most out of the experience. The guide will enable you to have the skills to ensure a project is well set up from the start, is able to communicate to its stakeholders and citizens, manage its data and outputs, and overall ensure research benefits.

The guide has been compiled by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and pulls on the generous contributions of the open science community.

Contents

Subsection: Project Planning and Communications | Project Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide; Stakeholder Matrix. By Line Laursen and Thomas Kaarsted | Communication; Communication Plan (Citizens); Project Highlight: Find a Lake. By Lotte Thing Rasmussen | Subsection: Management of Citizen Science Data | Research Data Management: Quick Start Guide (eLearning course) | Use of Data Policies in Citizen Science Projects: A Step-by-step Guide. By Jitka Stilund Hansen | Citizen Science Data and Standards; Project Highlight: Defining New Data Standards with Citizen Science. By Sven Schade and Chrisa Tsinaraki | Acknowledgment of Citizen Scientists on Research Outputs; Project Highlight: Lizard Conservation with the Balanggarra Rangers in Australia. By Georgia Ward-Fear | Planning and Securing Resources — The Data Management Plan. By Iryna Kuchma | Project Highlight: FAIR Data in a Citizen Science Project | Project Highlight: The INOS Project | Subsection: Scientific Literacy | Increasing Scientific Literacy with Citizen Science. By Berit Elisabeth Alving. 

Editorial

Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington Reviewers: Sara Decoster & Stefan Wiederkehr.

Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

  • Editorial

    Editorial

    Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington Reviewers: Sara Decoster & Stefan Wiederkehr.

    Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

  • Editorial

    Editorial

    Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington Reviewers: Sara Decoster & Stefan Wiederkehr.

    Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

  • Editorial

    Editorial

    Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington Reviewers: Sara Decoster & Stefan Wiederkehr.

    Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

Section 2: Library Infrastructures and Citizen Science

Book Information

Section Editor Kirsty Wallis

v1.0, 2023

Series: Citizen Science for Research Libraries — A Guide

DOI: 10.25815/tz0x‑m353 | ISBN Print: 978‑87‑94233‑57‑6 e‑book: 978‑87‑94233‑58‑3 | Wikidata: Q118313412

Web: cs4rl.github.io/infrastructure | Source: github.com/cs4rl/infrastructure |

Published by LIBER Citizen Science Working Group.

Collaborations: SciStarter and ECSA.

Copyright © 2023 the authors. Publication, articles, and images licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License – (CC BY-SA) unless otherwise stated.

Code – GNU General Public License v3.0. Data – All data and data sets produced are CC0, Public Domain.

The aim of the publication is to inspire researchers and the library community to take a second look at the infrastructures around them and how they can be creatively applied to citizen science projects. The section editor of Research Infrastructures and Citizen Science has brought together voices from across the research infrastructure community to show off existing facilities that are looking to support citizen science, combined with a range of case studies that have implemented citizen science research projects.

The guide has been compiled by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and pulls on the generous contributions of the open science community.

Contents

  1. Introduction: Existing Infrastructures That Can be Used to Support Citizen Science
  2. Repositories and CORE: Enabling Open Science Infrastructures for All
  3. Citizen Science Projects and Data Descriptions
  4. Effective Research Data Management
  5. Social Media in Libraries and Their Use in Supporting Research
  6. Persistent Identifiers and Rich Metadata
  7. Case Studies Introduction — Citizen Science and Infrastructures in Practice
  8. Making a Custom Citizen Science Reader
  9. Measure Together: Infrastructure Combining Environmental Citizen Science and Official Data in the Netherlands
  10. Software Citation Needed — Infrastructure Remixing
  11. Library Space Technology Network
  12. Galleries, Libraries & Museums (GLAM): Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage

Editorial

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington.

Editors: Alisa Martek and Dragana Janković.

Reviewers: Dr Raphaëlle Bats, Sara Decoster, Mitja V. Iskrić, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Dominic Tate.

Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis.

Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

  • Editorial

    Editorial

    Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington.

    Editors: Alisa Martek and Dragana Janković.

    Reviewers: Dr Raphaëlle Bats, Sara Decoster, Mitja V. Iskrić, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Dominic Tate.

    Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis.

    Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

  • Editorial

    Editorial

    Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington.

    Editors: Alisa Martek and Dragana Janković.

    Reviewers: Dr Raphaëlle Bats, Sara Decoster, Mitja V. Iskrić, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Dominic Tate.

    Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis.

    Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

  • Editorial

    Editorial

    Co-Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Kaarsted & Simon Worthington.

    Editors: Alisa Martek and Dragana Janković.

    Reviewers: Dr Raphaëlle Bats, Sara Decoster, Mitja V. Iskrić, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Dominic Tate.

    Editorial Committee: Paul Ayris (Chair), Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Jitka Stilund Hansen, and Kirsty Wallis.

    Correspondence: Simon Worthington, simon.worththington@tib.eu

General Information About the Publication

Mission Statement

The guide is designed to be a practical and compact gateway publication for the purpose of assisting research libraries to start setting up a Citizen Science programme.

Citizen Science for research libraries is a way to build new and more engaged audiences as a way to establish new links between science and society.

The guide will address the unique context of research libraries – as becoming the ‘go to place’ for the new and exciting Open Science data world that is opening up to the wider public.

As a starting point, the guide will use four recommendations for Citizen Science from the LIBER Open Science Roadmap: infrastructures; good scientific practice; guidelines, and; skilling.

Contents

The content will be organised around the following four main sections and release in sequential modules for reuse:

  1. Skills: Citizen Science skills development for staff, researchers, and the public – section editor Jitka Stilund Hansen, Technical University of Denmark.
  2. Infrastructures: As being active in the development of infrastructure for researchers to carry out Citizen Science – section editor Kirsty Wallis, University College London.
  3. Good [open] scientific practice: as managing bodies around knowledge libraries that can translate good [Open Science] scholarly practice into new Citizen Science fields – section editor Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Open Humans Foundation.
  4. Guidelines: develop guidelines for Citizen Science activities involving the library – section editor TBD.

Editorial

Co-editors-in-chief:

Simon Worthington simon.worthington@tib.eu ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8579-9717 | and

Thomas Kaarsted thk@bib.sdu.dk. ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6796-5753

Editorial Committee

Paul Ayris (Chair) ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6273-411X;

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9925-9623;

Jitka Stilund Hansen ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5888-1221, and;

Kirsty Wallis ORCID iD:0000-0002-9570-6174 .

Production

The book is intended as a short guide and will be approximately one hundred pages in length. The publication will be produced as multi-format and multi-channel (print-on-demand, PDF, Webbook, website, eBook, and as a Jupyter Book – and will be technically designed for reuse, for example in – community translations or in MOOCs.

Book sections will be released incrementally as they are ready. Ideally, the book will become a community-owned publication with regular updates.

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge The Library & Community Guide to Citizen Science published by SciStarter as an inspiration for the idea for our publication. Additionally, The Turing Way from the Alan Turing Institute is worth mentioning as a community model of open science publishing that we look to emulate.

An Open Science publication

The publication will be produced as an Open Access publication and use Open Science practices – where appropriate – to ensure the research is open and as reusable as possible, including: open data, open standards, PIDs, open peer review, open source software, and open methods, etc.

© 2021 the authors. All content licensed Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), unless otherwise stated. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Publication source: https://github.com/CitSci-WG/guide

References

Ayris, Paul, Bernal, Isabel, Cavalli, Valentino, Dorch, Bertil, Frey, Jeannette, Hallik, Martin, Hormia-Poutanen, Kristiina, et al. “LIBER Open Science Roadmap”. Zenodo, July 2, 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1303002. Page 29.

Cavalier, Darlene, Caroline Nickerson, Robin Salthouse, and Dan Stanton, eds. The Library & Community Guide to Citizen Science. SciStarter, 2020 (Revised 2021). http://media.scistarter.org/curated/The+Library+and+Community+Guide+to+Citizen+Science.pdf.

Arnold, Becky, Louise Bowler, Sarah Gibson, Patricia Herterich, Rosie Higman, Anna Krystalli, Alexander Morley, Martin O’Reilly, Kirstie Whitaker, and The Turing Way Community. The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3233986.