CSWG Resources and References

Selected Bibliography

Biodiversity Solutions, 2010. Involving people in biological recording.  Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 382. (http://www.ukeof.org.uk/documents/involving-people-in-biological-recording_snh-report382.pdf) (and attached)

Bonney, R., Ballard, H., Jordan, R., McCallie, E., Phillips, T., Shirk, J., and Wilderman, C. C. 2009, Public participation in scientific research: defining the field and assessing its potential for informal science education: Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE), Washington, D.C., 58 p. (http://caise.insci.org/uploads/docs/PPSR%20report%20FINAL.pdf)

Catlin-Groves, C.L., 2012, The citizen science landscape: from volunteers to citizen sensors and beyond: International Journal of Zoology, v. 2012, Article ID 349630, 14 p. (doi:10.1155/2012/349630)

Cooper, C. B., J. Dickinson, T. Phillips, and R. Bonney, 2007. Citizen science as a tool for conservation in residential ecosystems. Ecology and Society, 12(2): 11. (http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art11/)

Currier, S., 2011. Open Science Project: Final Report. JISC Research Communications Strategy Project, Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham: 35 p. (http://rcsproject.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/open-science-and-citizen-science-investigating-the-strategic-issues/) (and attached)

Dickinson, J. L., Zuckerberg, B., and Bonter, D. N., 2010, Citizen science as an ecological research tool: challenges and benefits: Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, v. 41, p. 149–172. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144636)

Duke, M., 2012, Citizen science: DCC Briefing Papers, Digital Curation Centre, Edinburgh. (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/citizen-science) (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Web%20CitizenScience2012Briefing)

Droege, S., 2007, Just because you paid them doesn’t mean their data are better: Citizen Science Toolkit Conference, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, June 20-23, 2007, 14 p. (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/features/resolveuid/ec5b58393f28553698cb6501959e26d4)

Graham, E. A., S. Henderson, and A. Schloss, 2011. Using mobile phones to engage citizen scientists in research. Eos Trans. AGU, 92(38): 313. (http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011EO380002.shtml)

Haklay M., 2010, How good is volunteered geographical information? A comparative study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey datasets: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, v. 37, no. 4, p. 682-703. (doi:10.1068/b35097)

Lee, T., M. S. Quinn, and D. Duke., 2006, Citizen, science, highways, and wildlife: using a web-based GIS to engage citizens in collecting wildlife information. Ecology and Society, v. 11, no. 1, article 11. (http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art11/)

Lepczyk, Christopher A., Owen D. Boyle, Timothy L. Vargo, Philip Gould, Rebecca Jordan, Louis Liebenberg, Susanne Masi, William P. Mueller, Michelle D. Prysby, and Hague Vaughan, 2009. Symposium 18: Citizen science in ecology: the intersection of research and education. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 90: 308-317. (doi:10.1890/0012-9623-90.3.308)  (and attached)

Lyon, L., 2009. Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential. UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Consultative Report: 45 p. (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/opensciencerpt.aspx)  (and attached)

Miller-Rushing, A., Primack, R., and Bonney, R., 2012, The history of public participation in ecological research: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , v. 10, no. 6, p. 285-290. (doi:10.1890/110278)

Nielsen, Michael, 2011. Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 280 p. (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9517.html)

Robson, Edward S. 2012. Evaluating and Reducing Tort Liability for Digital Volunteers. Washington: The Wilson Center http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/ROBSON_Responding_to_Liability_0.pdf

OpenScientist, 2011, Finalizing a Definition of "Citizen Science" and "Citizen Scientists": OpenScientist Blog, September 3, 2011, OpenScientist.org. (http://www.openscientist.org/2011/09/finalizing-definition-of-citizen.html)

Schwartz, M.D., Betancourt, J.L., and Weltzin, J.F., 2012, From Caprio’s lilacs to the USA National Phenology Network: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, v. 10, no. 6, p. 324–327.  (doi:10.1890/110281)

 Shirk, J. L., H. L. Ballard, C. C. Wilderman, T. Phillips, A. Wiggins, R. Jordan, E. McCallie, M. Minarchek, B. V. Lewenstein, M. E. Krasny, and R. Bonney, 2012, Public participation in scientific research: a framework for deliberate design: Ecology and Society, v. 17, no. 2, article 29. (http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04705-170229)

Silvertown, J., 2009,  A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, v. 24, no. 9 p. 467-471. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017)

U.S. Geological Survey

Weltzin, J., 2011. The USA National Phenology Network---Taking the Pulse of Our Planet: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3023, 4 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3023/) (and attached)

Wolf, E.B , Poore, B.S., Caro, H.K., and Matthews, G.D., 2011. Volunteer map data collection at the USGS: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3103, 2 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3103/) (and attached)

Other Bibliographies

• Audubon Christmas Bird Count Bibliography of Scientific Articles
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Citizen Science Central Reference Database
• Google Scholar search on "citizen science"

Organizations

• British Geological Survey Citizen Science | GeoExposures | "Crowdmap" application | Article
• CERN Citizen Cyberscience Centre
• Citizen Scientists League
• Citizen Based Monitoring Network
• CitSci.org
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology Citizen Science Central
• Earthwatch 
• ESA EcoTone Citizen Science Tuesdays
• Indigenous Peoples' Restoration Network
• Ocean Revolution
• Open Air Laboratory (OPAL)
• SciStarter
• Schoodic Education and Research Center
• Syracuse University
• The Wildlab
• Zooniverse

Project Compilations

• Citizen Science Central projects
• CitSci.org projects
• SciStarter | Project Finder (all listed) | listed USGS projects
• Scientific American
• The Phenology Daily
• Zooniverse projects
• Citizen Science Quarterly

"Canned Searches"

Simple Google searches on the phrase "citizen science" + site:.domain_name.

• All EDU | GOV | NET | US domains
• DOI National Park Service
• DOI U.S. Geological Survey
• DOI Fish and Wildlife Service

Miscellany

Open Knowledge Foundation: Tools for open science

Projects noted by others.

• CrowdHydrology (SUNY Buffalo)

Courses, tutorials and modules designed to help you implement citizen science programs in educational settings

• NEON Citizen Science Academy

Assessments

• UK OPAL Community Environment Report: EXPLORING NATURE TOGETHER
• UK Environmental Observation Framework Guide to Citizen Science: Understanding Citizen Science and Environmental Monitoring | Guide to Citizen Science

Regulations

• Processes and Policies Summary
• Whitehouse PRA Primer - 7 April 2010 (AKA White House Social Media Policy)
• Information Collection Review Inventory
• USGS NA Breeding Bird Survey - approved information collection activity fitting Citizen Science.

Toolkits

• Audubon - Toolkit for Engaging People in Conservation - http://web4.audubon.org/educate/toolkit/toolkit.php
• Citsci.org - Cyberinfrastructure support citizen science programs.  'All taxa, all topics!' 
• Cornell's Citizen Science Toolkit - http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/conference/toolkit/introdraft
• CrowdMap - https://crowdmap.com/
  
  • Collect information from cell phones, news and the web.
  • Aggregate that information into a single platform.
  • Visualize it on a map and timeline.
• USA National Phenology Network and Nature's Notebook - support for phenological programs from data collection to publishing
• Ushahidi - Data mashup and map-based visualization
• National Geographic FieldScope

Workshop Proceedings

• Bring Your Own Data: Opportunities and Challenges in Using Citizen-Generated Data - Summary
• Citizen Science Observations and Monitoring: Scoping Requirements, Knowledge exchange and finding potential synergies. 27th July 2011 Workshop Report. UK Environmental Observation Framework. (http://www.ukeof.org.uk/documents/ukeof-citizen-science-workshop-report.pdf) (and attached)
• Conference on Public Participation in Scientific Research, August 4-5, 2012, Portland, Oregon.

  • ESA Bulletin, January 2013, Public Participation in Scientific Research 2012: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference

• Engaging and Learning for Conservation: Public Participation in Scientific Research, held April 7 and 8, 2011 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City - Proceedings. (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/conference/ppsr2011/workshop-proceedings/)
• Lay, Local, Traditional Knowledge and Citizen Science: Their Roles in Monitoring and Assessment of the Environment, 27-28 June 2011. European Environment Agency. (http://www.ukeof.org.uk/documents/eea_workshop-report.pdf) (and attached)
• ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - Session on Citizen Science attended by Andrea Wiggins
  • Andrea's notes:  Citizen Science session, CSCW 2013:  http://andreawiggins.com/citizen-science-session-cscw-2013/
  • Andrea's presentation:  Free as in Puppies: Compensating for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) constraints
  • Andrea's paper:  Free as in puppies: compensating for ict constraints in citizen science

Established Best Practices

Data Management

• DataONE Data Management Guide for Public Participation in Scientific Research

Data Quality

• Data Quality Assurance & Quality Control for Nature's Notebook v1.0 (working version), check data download page for latest version.  National Phenology Network.

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