ViBRANT Citizen Science Workshop (24-25 January 2013)

Organised by Ed Baker (me) & Sarah Faulwetter to set a framework for future development of the Scratchpads BioBlitz profile (demo site) and the HCMR's ViBRANT deliverable of a Citizen Science module for Drupal.

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
• iSPOT
  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

ViBRANT attendees

• 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).