Dec 15, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Mario Scrocca – Cefriel Linked Open Data is structured data, openly published, that emphasizes the connections between different data. The survey research data, collected within the ACTION study on the motivation of citizen science participants...
Dec 6, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel The study conducted within the ACTION accelerator program to investigate the motivation of volunteers to participate in citizen science initiatives ended in October. The main goal was to understand the reasons that encourage...
Oct 18, 2021 | News from ACTION
The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community will be a gathering of the global citizen science community full of exciting talks, sharing of experiences, stimulating debates and informal networking moments. You will hear from a great...
Oct 15, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Drift When talking with policymakers, don’t talk citizen science. Start discussing real problems, and then how citizen science as a tool can help to solve them. Finally, we could gather safely in real life for one of our ACTION policy masterclasses: in Barcelona,...
Oct 8, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel The paper “The Survey Ontology: Packaging Survey Research as Research Objects” has been accepted at the DaMaLOS 2021 workshop, an event co-located with ISWC 2021. The paper describes the Survey Ontology designed to...
Sep 20, 2021 | News from ACTION
In collaboration with the researchers of the University of Sheffield (UK), the ACTION team of King’s College London’s are investigating the presence of cognitive biases in an experiment on crowdsourcing and citizen science. Such phenomena are defined as systematic...
