Data
The management of the data collected and how to share and communicate them.
- Data must be managed carefully, with secure storage systems.
- Data quality can be monitored with the participants themselves or with data quality experts.
- The data must be open. They can focus on the concerns of a community or group.
- The data collected help provide knowledge with the capacity for social transformation.
Why
Citizen science generates data and evidence that would be hard or impossible to obtain otherwise.
- It creates new data reflecting the concerns of a community or collective
- It generates information and knowledge that is difficult to obtain without participation
- It provides actionable knowledge
How
Data management
- Ensure data storage is secure and adequately organized according to current legislation
- Supervise data quality alongside participants or experts
- Document data with tutorials and metadata
- Follow established standards
- Preserve privacy
- Acknowledge participants as co-authors
Recommendations
- Easy to find
- Accessible and well-documented
- Connectible to other data and information sources
- Reusable for other initiatives or by other actors
- Dynamics of citizen participation
- Communication and monitoring of the project
- Academic and social impact of the research
- Changes in perception, attitude and knowledge among participants
- Make data more comprehensible with clear and concise messages
- Publish data in open repositories
- Publish documentation and results in peer-reviewed scientific journals
- Organize communication and dissemination activities: talks, events, newsletters, hackathons...
- Create tools for data visualization and easy navigation
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