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.

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.

scholarly journals SCIENCE COMMUNICATION ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY IN LATVIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 526-530
Author(s):  
Justīne Vīķe
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Respective Field ◽  
Organization Of Science ◽  
Commercialization Of Science

Transfer of results of scientific research to society for discussion and consumption is nowadays one of scientists’ responsibilities. Along with the change of roles of scientific institutions, scientists have also become obliged to distribute results of scientific research, not only within their own community, but also to the part of society that does not consist of specialists in the respective field of research, and that consists of potential consumers of the results of scientific research, including industry as potential commercializers of the research result.The objective of the research was the identification of factors affecting the transfer of results of scientific research to industry (commercialization of science) and the science communication process. Both secondary and primary data were used in the research. Primary data was acquired by semi-structured interviews with experts from industry, university and government.Several factors affecting the commercialization of science have been identified in the situation of Latvia. There is no motivational system for scientists regarding the organization of science communication in Latvia, but the science communication role is essential for cooperation between university and industry.

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...

DEVELOPING INFORMATION SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-11
Author(s):  
G.S. Lebedev ◽  
◽  
O.B. Krylov ◽  
A.I. Leljakov ◽  
V.V. Tkachenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Scientific Institutions

scholarly journals La ricerca applicata ai vini di qualità

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Malolactic Fermentation ◽  
The State ◽  
Red Wines ◽  
Yeast Cultures ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
University Of Florence

This is a book on the state of the art of scientific research applied to the fields of viticulture, management of the foliage, manual and mechanical harvesting, vinification techniques, the use of mixed yeast cultures, malolactic fermentation and microoxygenation. It synthetically illustrates the lines of research that the Consorzio Tuscania has co-ordinated in the four-year period 2007-2010. Each of these lines of research has been conducted in liaison with some of the most important scientific institutions in the sector: CNR Ibimet, DIPROVE (University of Milan), IASMA-FEM, University of Florence (DEISTAF, DIPSA, DIBA Departments), SAIFET (University-Polytechnic of the Marches) and DISAABA (University of Sassari). The work offer useful cues for updating the production techniques for quality red wines.

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, Experts, and Expertise.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-385
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jordan ◽  
Amanda Sorensen ◽  
Steven Gray
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Groups

Interest in citizen science is growing among both scientists and community groups who are interested in creating natural resource management projects. Such projects have the potential to result in social learning, which can further reinforce resource stewardship. Data to study this learning process, however, remain scant. Using transcripts from four different natural resource management projects, we use discourse analysis to investigate the discursive practice between project scientists and community members in the development of models that were used to test ideas and subsequently modified with citizen collected data. We found that only a portion of the discussion focused on knowledge building and that only experts provided challenges to ideas being discussed. Subsequently to these challenges, however, a greater proportion of knowledge co-creation occurred.

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 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.

scholarly journals Knowledge-Building Approach for Tsunami Impact Analysis Aided by Citizen Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Yen ◽  
Simon C. Lin ◽  
Tso-Ren Wu ◽  
Yu-Lin Tsai ◽  
Meng-Ju Chung
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Building
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