The author recalls some of the achievements of the first Southern African Bird Atlas Project and other citizen science projects that were run by the Animal Demography Unit (then the Avian Demography Unit, ADU). The traditional motivation for such projects is cast into doubt, given that expansion...
South AfricaThe COVID-19 lockdown has had a marked effect on citizen science projects, such as the Southern African Bird Atlas Project, SABAP2. With their mobility severely constrained, most citizen scientists in South Africa were not able to submit full protocol lists during the Alert Level ...
Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection to advance scientific research. We present contributory citizen science as a valuab...
Here, we used a citizen science approach and 16S metabarcoding to assess the composition of the microbiome of the oral cavity among teenagers in Spain. We studied its variation with more than 50 parameters including geographical location, gender, and urban environment, as well as several dietary ...
Traditional data sources are not sufficient for measuring the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. New and non-traditional sources of data are required. Citizen science is an emerging example of a non-traditional data source that is already maki
Citizen science is a social innovation that has recently been recognized by social initiatives as a possible tool to increase participation, build knowledge, and raise civic awareness. In order to work efficiently, citizen science requires the adoption of proper technological solutions by a critical ma...
Citizen science tools available for ecological research in South Africa. The article presents not-for-profit tools for ecological research projects in South Africa including Ispot, WhatSpecies and Virtual Museum. Topics discusse... Hulbert,Joseph,M. - 《South African Journal of Science》 被引量: ...
Although current literature highlights a wide variety of potential citizen science project outcomes, no prior studies have systematically assessed performa... J Cox,EY Oh,B Simmons,... - 《Computing in Science & Engineering》 被引量: 48发表: 2015年 Internet revolution revisited : a comparative st...
Use of citizen science monitoring for pattern discovery and biological inference Introduction Citizen science, broadly speaking, is the involvement of amateur (i.e. unpaid, but not necessarily unskilled) participants in the process of scientific studies, typically with data collection or data processing...
A citizen-powered science is beginning to emerge, and it will be weird, but it cannot and should not be ignored.