Dynamics of Engagement in Citizen Science: Results from the “Yes, I do!”-Project

Moor, Tine De; Rijpma, Auke; Lopez, Montserrat Prats

doi:10.5334/cstp.212

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“…People can also become even more interested in the topic once they engage with it further. For example, in an online transcription project where participants had to transcribe sixteenth-and seventeenthcentury handwriting, a small group of participants chose the more difficult task of deciphering sixteenth-century handwriting in preference to the easier task of deciphering the seventeenth-century handwriting (De Moor et al 2019). Although prior interest is more often assessed as a prerequisite for participation in citizen science, more research on increased interest as a result of participation would be interesting.…”

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confidence: 99%

Participants in Citizen Science

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Agnello²,

Gültekin

2021

The Science of Citizen Science

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The most important factor that defines citizen science is that non-professional scientists contribute to scientific research. Therefore, it is important to recognise the perspectives and experiences of these participants. Projects may provide ways for participants to contribute to scientific research at different stages of the scientific process according to different levels of engagement. Understanding what motivates citizen scientists to engage in a project, and subsequently matching the project to these motivations, will help project leaders to recruit and retain participants. In addition, it is important to understand what benefits participants gain from engagement in citizen science projects. For individual projects, this will help ensure that scientists as well as participants benefit. For the wider field of citizen science, this will provide evidence of the potential impact of citizen science on participants. However, participants may also encounter challenges during their engagement with citizen science projects. Project leaders and scientists should plan in advance to address these challenges and ensure that relevant expertise is present in the project team.

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Section: Benefits and Outcomes For Participantsmentioning

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Participants in Citizen Science

Land-Zandstra

Agnello²,

Gültekin

2021

The Science of Citizen Science

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“…Sustained engagement and generating the required participation levels in citizen science are of primary importance in contributing to data quality and should therefore be carefully considered (Scott and Frost, 2017;Moor et al, 2019;Serret et al, 2019). To evaluate this, we used data on the participation of the citizen scientists from the six monitoring sites.…”

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Monitoring of Suspended Sediments in a Tropical Forested Landscape With Citizen Science

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Catchments are complex systems, which require regular monitoring of hydro-chemical parameters in space and time to provide comprehensive datasets. These are needed to characterize catchment behavior on a local level, make future projections based on models, implement mitigation measures and meet policy targets. However, many developing countries lack a good infrastructure for hydrological monitoring since its establishment is costly and the required resources are often not available. To overcome such challenges in data scarce regions like Kenya, a participatory citizen science approach can be a promising strategy for monitoring water resources. This study evaluates the potential of using a contributory citizen science approach to explore spatiotemporal turbidity and suspended sediment dynamics in the Sondu-Miriu river basin, western Kenya. A group of 19 citizen scientists was trained to monitor turbidity using turbidity tubes and water levels with water level gauges in six nested subcatchments of the Sondu-Miriu river basin. Over the course of the project, a total of 37 citizen scientists participated and contributed to the overall dataset of turbidity. The sampling effort and data contribution varied from year to year and among participants with the majority of the data (72%) originating from 8 (22%) citizen scientists. Comparison between citizen-scientist collected suspended sediment data and measurements from automated stations showed high correlation (R2 > 0.9) which demonstrates that data collected by citizen scientists can be comparable to data collected using expensive monitoring equipment. However, there was reduced precision of the measurements of suspended sediment concentrations at low and high levels attributed largely to the detection limitations of the turbidity tubes and citizen scientists not capturing major sediment export events. Suspended sediment concentrations were significantly higher downstream (109 ± 94 mg L−1), a subcatchment dominated by agriculture and rangeland with low forest vegetation cover, as compared to a subcatchment with high forest cover (50 ± 24.7 mg L−1). This finding indicates that forest cover is a key landscape feature to control suspended sediment concentrations in the region. Future citizen science projects should focus on motivation and engagement strategies and the application of robust methods with improved detection limits and resolution to advance hydrological monitoring.

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“…The data collected in this dataset has been used for several academic papers by members and affiliated researchers of our research team (De Moor et al, 2020;Störmer et al, 2017), a book on marriage in early modern Amsterdam directed at a broader, non-academic audience (Van Weeren & De Moor, 2019) and a study of the long-term development of marriage patterns worldwide and its implications for the position of women (Van Zanden et al, 2019). As a side-effect of this data collection, research on the learning curve of participants in this project as well as other projects on the Vele Handen platform was performed, resulting in a publication on the dynamics of Citizen Science (De Moor et al, 2019).…”

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Counting Couples: The Marriage Banns Registers of the City of Amsterdam, 1580–1810

Weeren

Moor

2021

Res. Data J Humanit. Soc. Sci.

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Marriage is generally regarded as a decisive moment in the life course of individuals. As the social, but also the legal status of women and men changes as soon as they enter marriage and – by extension – their preceding wedding engagement, registers are and were being kept to record this life event in most societies. The difficulty in studying the long-term development of marriage patterns is the need for, among other things, detailed information about the marriage formation process. Most of the research on marriage patterns is based on a limited amount of data. Data either cover only a limited period (at most several consecutive decades), a limited number of variables, a relatively small number of marriages, and/or a relatively small town or region. The Amsterdam marriage banns registers are an exception to the above, in terms of content, focus area, and volume. In this article, we present the dataset results of the Citizen Science project ‘Ja, ik wil!’ [‘Yes, I do!’], involving over 500 participants retrieving a wide range of socio-economic data on over 94,000 couples from the rich source of the historical Amsterdam marriage banns registers, covering every fifth year between 1580 and 1810.

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Dynamics of Engagement in Citizen Science: Results from the “Yes, I do!”-Project

Cited by 22 publications

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Counting Couples: The Marriage Banns Registers of the City of Amsterdam, 1580–1810

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