Workshop Day 1: What can we learn from successful citizen science projects?
Morning (workshop participants & invited NHM staff)Presentations from successful citizen science projects (background to the project and what has made them successful)
- COMBER (Citizens' Network for the Observation of Marine BiodivERsity)
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Open University / OPAL
- ExCiteS (Extreme Citizen Science)
University College London
- Notes from NatureVizzuality
- Global Canopy Programme
- Overview of other European Citizen Science projectsSarah Faulwetter & Ed Baker
Afternoon (workshop participants)Round table discussion on how ViBRANT and Scratchpads can participate in citizen science with emphasis on:
- What would be useful for us to do and how we might be able to engage with existing projects?
- What user-groups exist, how are they served by existing projects, and who can Scratchpads/ViBRANT target?
- What are the outcomes of these projects (fun/educational awareness/scientific data)?
- What quality of data can be collected?
- How can data gathered be reused (Biodiversity Data Journal/GBIF/EoL)?
Workshop Day 2: Creating a citizen science plan for Scratchpads & ViBRANT
- Development plan for HCMR’s citizen science module and can we incorporate it into the BioBlitz profile
- Can we incorporate citizen science tools into Scratchpads in general (e.g. crowdsourcing image transcription).