20 Feb 2021
By Reanna Putnam
New site for PPSR Core

New site for PPSR Core

Data & Metadata, Uncategorized,
PPSR Core is a set of global, transdisciplinary data and metadata standards for use in  Public Participation in Scientific Research (Citizen Science) projects. These standards are united, supported, and underlined by a common framework illustrating how information is structured within the citizen science domain. This allows data to be used across platforms and projects in a consistent manner, furthering the research goals of the scientific community. The CSA Data and Metadata Working Group has launched a new site to coordinate work around this effort: core.citizenscience.org. We welcome your contributions to PPSR Core. This site is maintained by a diverse group of volunteers through the Citizen Science…
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13 Mar 2020
By Reanna Putnam
New Data Quality Resource Compendium

New Data Quality Resource Compendium

Data & Metadata, Resources
A well-known  barrier to achieving the science and policy oriented goals of citizen science is the (real or perceived) quality of data generated by our efforts. Back in 2017, the Data and Metadata Working Group held a workshop on the topic of data quality in conjunction with the Citizen Science Association Conference. A testament to the interest in this topic, the room was filled to the brim! We brainstormed ways in which we could support the broader citizen science community. How could we work together to elevate the usefulness and use of citizen science data?  What resources and services were…
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15 Jan 2018
By Jennifer Shirk
Data & Metadata: Working Group Report and Future Outlook

Data & Metadata: Working Group Report and Future Outlook

Data & Metadata
Cross-posted from the Wilson Center's Science & Technology Innovation Program blog, previewing a report by members of the Citizen Science Association's Data & Metadata Working Group. With the growth of citizen science comes the challenge of coordinating people, projects, and data. This challenge also presents an opportunity. Through the use of data and metadata standards and other mechanisms to promote interoperability, data can support multiple research questions, allowing citizen science to help address ever grander issues and problems on local, regional, national, and global scales. In 2015, the U.S.-based Citizen Science Association (CSA) founded a Data and Metadata Working Group.…
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09 Feb 2016
By Jennifer Shirk
Data and metadata: Reporting from the citizen science data and service infrastructure meeting in Italy

Data and metadata: Reporting from the citizen science data and service infrastructure meeting in Italy

Data & Metadata
By: Sven Schade, Anne Bowser, and Russell Scarpino With the growth of citizen science comes the challenge of coordinating people, projects, and data. But these challenges also present a tremendous opportunity – with proper standardization, data can support multiple projects, allowing citizen science to address ever-grander issues and problems. The U.S. Citizen Science Association (CSA) recently founded a Data and Metadata Working Group to promote collaboration in citizen science through development and/or improvement of international standards for data and metadata. To support, advance, and facilitate interoperability, the working group supports the standardization of: Project metadata, which describes different types of…
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12 Nov 2015
By Jennifer Shirk
Introducing the Data and Metadata Working Group

Introducing the Data and Metadata Working Group

AAPS News, Data & Metadata
The CSA board recently approved a Citizen Science Data and Metadata working group (a list of inaugural members can be found here). CSA's Data and Metadata Working Group aims to support, advance, and facilitate data interoperability among and between citizen science projects, and other data repositories; and, to promote collaboration in citizen science via the development and/or improvement of international standards for data and metadata. This working group is adopting oversight of the PPSR_CORE metadata standards, which were developed as part of DataONE and most recently refined at a workshop hosted by the Wilson Center and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
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09 Oct 2015
By Jennifer Shirk
PPSR_CORE Metadata Standard

PPSR_CORE Metadata Standard

Data & Metadata, Resources
Overview Over the fall of 2013, organizations supporting citizen science came to a landmark agreement - to share basic information across databases that catalog citizen science projects.The collaborative success for citizen science and public participation in scientific research (PPSR) led to the development of the PPSR_CORE Program Data Model Metadata Standard / data sharing protocol.Sharing information across databases maximizes everyone's efforts, getting more "bang for the buck" out of information about citizen science projects everywhere. It leads to current, up-to-date, and synchronized project lists and a broader understanding about citizen science globally. The Need With the proliferation of citizen science,…
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11 Jun 2015
By AAPS Staff
Efforts underway to share project metadata

Efforts underway to share project metadata

Data & Metadata
Introducing PPSR_CORE: supporting data sharing and a common understanding of citizen science. As the field of citizen science continues to grow, there is an increasing need to document information about different projects. Collecting and maintaining this information will help practitioners discover each other’s work, help projects recruit volunteers, and enable researchers to study “the science of citizen science” by accessing data about project goals, impacts, and practices. With these needs in mind, a number or organizations with complementary goals are compiling repositories of projects in citizen science and related fields: SciStarter helps projects recruit volunteers CitizenScience.org supports professional networking between…
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