Autumn Series 2021 Document Archive
Annotated Bibliography for the NASA citizen science data primer project
NASA ESDS Citizen Science Data Working Group White Paper Version 1.0 – 24 April 2020. This paper, created by NASA Earth Science citizen science project leaders, offers guidance for NASA Earth Science citizen science project data management. Guidance is relevant to others.
Bowser, A. & Wiggins, A. (2015). Privacy in participatory research: Advancing policy to support human computation. Human Computation Journal, 2, 1, 19-44. Paper presents a solid set of ethical practices as relate to project design decisions, and it shares perspectives on data that are less well represented in other resources. (If you cannot access this paper, please contact Sarah).
Citizen Science Association's Data Quality Resource Compendium, compiled by the Data and Metadata Working Group. An impressive collection of resources to support data quality in all manner of citizen science projects.
Citizen Science Ethics, a Special Issue of Citizen Science: Theory and Practice published on 08 March, 2019.
Ganzevoort, W., van den Born, R.J.G., Halffman, W. et al. Sharing biodiversity data: citizen scientists’ concerns and motivations. Biodivers Conserv 26, 2821–2837 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1391-z. This piece can help remind people to make fewer assumptions about volunteers’ interests, or to shift to the base assumption that there’s going to be a wide variety of positions among volunteers when it comes to complex issues like these. The paper starts to show that volunteers have meaningful emotional and intellectual investment in this work which may otherwise be invisible to researchers.
Gellman, Robert. Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science, and the Law: Legal Issues Affecting Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2015).
Ramachandran, R., Bugbee, K., & Murphy, K. (2021). From open data to open science. Earth and Space Science, 8, e2020EA001562. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001562. This commissioned study by three NASA-affiliated data scientists defines open science and recommends actions by institutions and individuals to make science more open.