scholarly journals AN EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR OBSERVATORY SYSTEM BASED ON DOCKER CLOUD

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
J. Han ◽  
C. Cui ◽  
D. Fan ◽  
Y. Xu ◽  
C. Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Hardware Platform ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Utility Rate ◽  
High Utility ◽  
Full Consideration

Remote observatory is playing more and more important role in scientific research, astronomy education and citizen science. With many years' development, remote observatory whether hardware or software has made great progress. It supports single telescope well and has been very mature. For high utility rate of an observatory, more and more observatories has began to run multiple telescopes to provide more observation services. But it also takes some challenges, for example how to manage telescopes, how to manage lots of observers, how to update driver or application quickly and how to realize coordination and cooperation between different telescopes. After taking into full consideration of the problems, we propose an extensible framework for observatory system based on Docker cloud. It not only could solve that challenges from multi telescopes, but also could make software application to support more hardware platform easily.

Citizens of the future

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-144
Author(s):  
Colin Milburn ◽  
Melissa Wills
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Utopian Thought

Over the last decade, a variety of ‘citizen science’ projects have turned to video games and other tools of gamification to enrol participants and to encourage public engagement with scientific research questions. This article examines the significance of sf in the field of citizen science, focusing on projects such as Eyewire, Be a Martian!, Sea Hero Quest, Play to Cure: Genes in Space, Forgotten Island and the ‘Project Discovery’ experiments in EVE Online. The sf stories that frame these projects often allegorise the neoliberal assumptions and immaterial labour practices of citizen science, even while seeming to hide or disguise them. At the same time, the fictional frames enable players to imagine social and technical innovations that, while not necessarily achievable in the present, nevertheless point to a future of democratic science, social progress and responsible innovation - blips of utopian thought from the zones of crowdsourced labour.

Contribution of the student conferences “Physics of Space” to the continuing astronomy education system

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 357-359
Author(s):  
Eduard Kuznetsov ◽  
Dmitry Bisikalo ◽  
Olga Inisheva ◽  
Konstantin Kholshevnikov ◽  
Boris Shustov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Astronomical Observatory ◽  
Ural Region ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
Traditional Student ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
Postgraduate Studies

AbstractUral Federal University is one of the main and most effective centers for educating young astronomers in Russia. The traditional student scientific conferences “Physics of Space” have been successfully held annually in Kourovka Astronomical Observatory of the Ural Federal University for 50 years and have gained recognition not only in Russia. The conference initiated many educational initiatives both in the Ural region and, in general, in Russia. The astronomy education system implemented by UrFU and partners includes the following activities: 1) education and career guidance of schoolchildren in the Lyceum of UrFU, 2) activities to attract applicants, 3) training at the speciality, undergraduate, and graduate level, 4) participation in the student conferences “Physics of Space”, 5) postgraduate studies, 6) cooperation in the field of education. This activity ensures the attraction of promising youth to scientific research.

Student participation in a coastal water quality citizen science project and its contribution to the conceptual and procedural learning of chemistry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luís Araújo ◽  
Carla Morais ◽  
João Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Coastal Water ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Procedural Learning ◽  
Science Project ◽  
Coastal Water Quality ◽  
Chemistry Learning ◽  
Citizen Science Project

The active participation of citizens in scientific research, through citizen science, has been proven successful. However, knowledge on the potential of citizen science within formal chemistry learning, at the conceptual...

scholarly journals Exploring serendipitous dialogue

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. E ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Weitkamp
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas

Over the past decades there has been an increasing recognition of the need to promote dialogue between science and society. Often this takes the form of formal processes, such as citizen’s juries, that are designed to allow the public to contribute their views on particular scientific research areas. But there are also many less formal mechanisms that promote a dialogue between science and society. This editorial considers science festivals and citizen science in this context and argues that we need a greater understanding of the potential impacts of these projects on the individuals involved, both scientists and the public.

scholarly journals Citizen Science in Support of Digital Earth

2019 ◽  
pp. 593-622
Author(s):  
Maria Antonia Brovelli ◽  
Marisa Ponti ◽  
Sven Schade ◽  
Patricia Solís
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Digital Earth ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Citizen science can be thought of as a tremendous catalyst for making Digital Earth a participation model of our world. This chapter presents a wide overview of the concept and practice of citizen science in terms of the technologies and social impact. Definitions of citizen science and various existing approaches to citizen involvement are described, from simple contributions to projects proposed by someone else to the design and planning of science as a bottom-up process. To illustrate these concepts, the relevant example of OpenStreetMap is described in detail, and other examples are mentioned and briefly discussed. Social innovation connected with citizen science is focused on to highlight different levels of direct citizen contributions to scientific research and indirect effects on academia, and studies driven by new questions that may support responsible research and innovation (RRI), governments and public administration in making better informed decisions. Despite its growth and success in relatively few years, citizen science has not fully overcome a number of persistent challenges related to quality, equity, inclusion, and governance. These themes and related complex facets are discussed in detail in the last section of the chapter.

scholarly journals Citizen science and crowdsourcing in the field of marine scientific research — the MaDCrow project

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (06) ◽  
pp. A09
Author(s):  
Paolo Diviacco ◽  
Antonio Nadali ◽  
Massimiliano Nolich ◽  
Andrea Molinaro ◽  
Massimiliano Iurcev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
Scientific Institutions

Marine research is as important as very demanding since it requires expensive infrastructures and resources. Scientific institutions, on the contrary, have very limited funding so that the seas remain, still, mostly unexplored. Another serious concern is that society at large often resonates with fake news, while scientists sometimes tend to bias research with their backgrounds and paradigms. We think that all these issues can be addressed opening the process of knowledge building to the questions and needs of stakeholders and laypeople. The MaDCrow project proposed and tested several paths to attain these goals.

scholarly journals The Microbiome as TED Knows It: Popular Science Communication and Neoliberal Subject

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Ironstone
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Human Microbiome ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Microbiome Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ted Talks

Background  Although criticized for a variety of reasons, TED platforms and conventions have been engaged, often uncritically, as tools for popular science communication. This article critically examines four TED Talks that engage the relatively recent biomedical concept of the human microbiome. Analysis  Neoliberal values underpin both the TED universe and the marketization of science. TED conventions produce a discursive regularity that brings together neoliberal subjectivity and bioeconomic imperatives of contemporary scientific research. This neoliberalization is supported by uncritically championing citizen science and the so-called democratization of science alongside crowdsourcing and crowdfunding appeals.Conclusions and implications  Uncritically embracing TED Talks can implicate science communication in the reproduction of problematic ideological positions that favour economic interests over the social good or even individual health.Contexte  Les plateformes et conférences TED ont contribué à rendre la science accessible, même si elles souvent manqué de discernement en le faisant. Cet article effectue un examen critique de quatre TED Talks portant sur le concept relativement récent de microbiome humain. Analyse Des valeurs néolibérales sous-tendent l’univers TED et la marchandisation de la science. Les conférences TED associent ordinairement une subjectivité néolibérale aux impératifs bioéconomiques de la recherche savante contemporaine. Elles appuient le néolibéralisme en vantant de manière parfois irréfléchie la prétendue démocratisation de la science, les sciences participatives, la production participative et les appels au sociofinancement.  Conclusions et implications  Accepter sans réserve les TED Talks peut entraîner la communication de la science à reproduire des partis pris idéologiques problématiques, favorisant des intérêts économiques au détriment du bien commun ou même de la santé personnelle.

Citizen Science in Astronomy Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Trouille ◽  
Thomas Nelson ◽  
Julie Feldt ◽  
John Keller ◽  
Marc Buie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Astronomy Education

Is the GDPR and Its Right to Data Portability a Major Enabler of Citizen Science?

Global Jurist ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
General Data ◽  
Data Portability

Abstract Citizen science is an emerging trend with an ever greater number of adherents. It involves the collection and contribution of large amounts of data by private individuals for scientific research. Often such data will concern the individuals themselves and will be collected through processes of self monitoring. This phenomenon has been greatly influenced by the Internet of Things (IoT) and the connectivity of a wide range monitoring devices through the internet. In collecting such data use will often be made of the services of various commercial organisations, for example that offer cloud storage services. The possibility of data portability is extremely important in citizen science as it allows individuals (or data subjects) to be able move their data from one source to another (i. e. to new areas of scientific research). This article explores the limits and possibilities that legal rights to data portability offer, in particular the new right as outlined by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. In doing so this article will look at where this right (and how it operates in the international legal context) is able to facilitate the phenomenon of citizen science.

scholarly journals Impact of Citizen Science on Scientific Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 11_30-11_39
Author(s):  
Masaki NAKAMURA
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scientific Research
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