SMWL Masterclass: why Open Research and Open Data are crucial for Citizen Science

@MobileMaggie

http://www.slideshare.net/MobileMaggie

Citizen science is the involvement of non-

scientists in scientificresearch, to tasks perform

such as observation, measurement, identification

or computation.

Citizen Cyberscience makes use of technology tools and platforms, such as the Web and mobile phones, to

enable crowd-sourced scientific research

Open Hardware, the Internet of Things, and the Maker Movement

are opening up many new possibilities for measurement, data

collection and computation

Extreme Citizen Science puts the tools for Science into the hands of

Citizens, who craft their own projects, in order to make a direct

impact on their world.

Just as the web is a democracy, with knowledge and know-how openly shared, Citizen Science is also a democratic movement, requiring

equal openness.

It is crucial that the resulting Research be shared openly and

accessibly, both in full and in layman’s terms

It is equally crucial that the Data be shared openly and accessibly, and should ideally be API’d and linked