ECSA's Characteristics of Citizen Science. Version 1.
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2020Corporate Author
European Citizen Science Association (ECSA)
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This document attempts to represent a wide range of opinions in an inclusive way, to allow for different types of projects and programmes, where context-specific criteria can be set.The characteristics outlined below are based on views expressed by researchers, practitioners, public officials and the wider public. Our aim is to identify the characteristics that should be considered when setting such criteria (e.g. a funding scheme), and we call upon readers to determine which subset of these characteristics is relevant to their own specific context and aims. These characteristics build on (and refer to) the ECSA 10 principles of citizen science as a summary of best practie – and projects are expected to engage meaningfully with them. Where it is especially pertinent, we refer to them in the characteristics below. The rest of the document covers the characteristics of citizen science under five sections:
(1) core concepts;
(2) disciplinary aspects;
(3) leadership and participat.....
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https://zenodo.org/records/3758668#.Ym_ho9PP1hEPublisher
European Citizen Science AssociationBerlin, Germany
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3758668Citation
European Citizen Science Association (2020) ECSA's Characteristics of Citizen Science. Version 1. (Haklay, M., Motion, A., Balázs, B., Kieslinger, B., Greshake Tzovaras, et al ). Berlin, Germany, European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), 6pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3758668Collections