Hydrological monitoring is essential to guide evidence-based decision making necessary for
sustainable water resource management and governance. Limited hydrometric datasets and …

Biological recording is in essence a very simple concept in which a record is the report of a
species at a physical location at a certain time. The collation of these records into a dataset …

Online citizen science projects have the potential to engage thousands of participants with
scientific research. A small number of projects such as Foldit use an online computer game …

The bulk of research on citizen science participants is project centric, based on an
assumption that volunteers experience a single project. Contrary to this assumption, survey …

Research projects that actively involve 'crowds' or non-professional 'citizen scientists' are
attracting growing attention. Such projects promise to increase scientific productivity while …

Human computation is a computing approach that draws upon human cognitive abilities to
solve computational tasks for which there are so far no satisfactory fully automated solutions …

Dominant forms of contemporary big-data based digital citizen science do not question the
institutional divide between qualified experts and lay-persons. In our paper, we turn to the …

Digital technologies facilitate collaboration between citizens and scientists in citizen science
(CS) projects. Besides the facilitation of data transmission and access, digital technologies …

Data quality control is important for any data collection program, especially in citizen science
projects, where it is more likely that errors occur due to the human factor. Ideally, data quality …

Recent years have seen a surge in online collaboration between experts and amateurs on
scientific research. In this article, we analyse the epistemological implications of these …