Citizen Science
This note is about building large scale approaches and tools for collection, tracking, and analysis of data with broad distributed participation.
cf.
- do-it-yourself science
The key idea here is to use this as the context for the extension into Citizen Design.
Examples:
- Atlas of Living Australia, a platform for merging biodiversity data from multiple sources. Supports or is linked to multiple international living atlases. See the future directions for ALA. 1
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) an international network and data infrastructure about all types of life on Earth.
The number of citizen science project in Australian cities is currently low, living open potential for growth.
Roger, Erin, and Alice Motion. ‘Citizen Science in Cities: An Overview of Projects Focused on Urban Australia’. Urban Ecosystems 25, no. 3 (2022): 741–52. https://doi.org/10/gsmfdk.
References
Vohland, Katrin, Anne Land-Zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, Rob Lemmens, Josep Perelló, Marisa Ponti, Roeland Samson, and Katherin Wagenknecht, eds. The Science of Citizen Science. Cham: Springer, 2021.
Footnotes
Belbin, Lee, Elycia Wallis, Donald Hobern, and Andre Zerger. ‘The Atlas of Living Australia: History, Current State and Future Directions’. Biodiversity Data Journal 9 (2021): e65023. https://doi.org/10/gsmfbz.˄