15 March 2018, global: abstract submission deadline for special issue in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice on Policy Perspectives in Citizen Science

[Daniel-Mietchen]

as per http://citizenscience.org/2018/01/26/special-issue-call-for-papers-policy-perspectives-in-citizen-science/

Original deadline was March 1, but it has been extended to March 15.

Possible topics:

• data sharing in public health emergencies: a citizen science perspective
  • perhaps zoom in on some specific things like power outage info as in http://outagemap.dominionenergy.com.s3.amazonaws.com/external/default.html
• Wikidata as a driver for licensing policy changes at the level of databases
• Collaboration between Wikimedia and first responders
• HOT OSM
• DATA4SDGs/ Citizen-generated Data activities
• NVTC hackathon
• link rot around disasters

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Another possible topic: FAIR Principles as an addition to the Citizen Science Principles

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Here is my contribution:

Citizen science and the FAIR Principles

The FAIR Principles are a set of recommendations around research data management and stewardship. In short, these principles describe how data arising from research as well as the associated metadata can be made Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable for both humans and machines. Building on pioneering efforts within individual domains of research, they take a cross-disciplinary perspective on research data and are gaining traction in multiple corners of the research landscape, including in international research policy contexts.

This contribution will explore how the FAIR Principles align with best practices around data and metadata generated in the framework of citizen science projects from a range of disciplines and locations around the globe. It will consider implications from the perspectives of research quality, research policy, research infrastructure and the communities around citizen science projects. In doing so, it will raise questions like how can citizen scientists find projects to contribute and vice versa, how can data from different citizen science projects be combined on a technical level, what policy issues need to be addressed, and how to identify best data stewardship practices in citizen science.

Special attention will be paid to the relationship between the FAIR Principles and the Ten Principles of Citizen Science as well as to the potential of the FAIR Principles for enhancing interactions between citizen science projects and the wider research and data landscapes, and open science efforts in particular.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I just submitted it to the Editorial team.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

The submission was rejected on May 10 - I just had forgotten to note this here.