Shifting Roles of Citizen Scientists Accelerates <scp>High‐Quality</scp> Data Collection for Climate Change Research-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Shifting Roles of Citizen Scientists Accelerates High‐Quality Data Collection for Climate Change Research

Published:2023-10 Issue:1 Volume:60 Page:1155-1157
ISSN:2373-9231
Container-title:Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
language:en
Short-container-title:Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Author:

Van Hyning Victoria¹,Bibeault Britney¹,Purves Michael²,Heikes Randi³

Affiliation:

1. University of Maryland USA

2. Old Weather LibreOffice Calc Canada

3. Old Weather LibreOffice Calc USA

Abstract

ABSTRACTWe are a team of citizen science volunteers and academics presenting a case study about how long‐serving Old Weather (OW) project volunteers left the leading citizen science platform, Zooniverse.org, and created their own opensource transcription tool to capture meteorological data from historic ship logbooks, for climate science. This project, built in LibreOffice Calc (hereafter LOC‐OW) marks a transition from a hierarchical model of crowdsourcing to a co‐productive model in which the roles of the volunteers and the original project owners shifted, the volunteers gained expertise and developed a sense of ownership over the data production tools and process.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Library and Information Sciences,General Computer Science

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