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...
Aug 11, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
By Kat Austen – IGB This week Open Soil Atlas presented their project at the Emergent Berlin Festival. The festival, ongoing through 2021, focusses on the topic of transformation in multiple senses. For the month of August’s focus on ecological change, ACTION...
Aug 9, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Kat Austen – IGB The consequences of climate change are spreading and becoming more tangible for many. In the last months, wildfires have ravaged the Mediterranean, heatwaves have spread across the Pacific Northwest and Siberia, while floods have devastated...
Jul 24, 2021 | News from ACTION
On 24 June, ACTION held its third masterclass to leverage citizen science for policy, this time in the UK. In this masterclass, participants pitched citizen science questions, and it showed how diverse the stakeholders involved in citizen science are and how it...
