Results for: Data and Metadata Working Group
New Data Quality Resource Compendium
Posted on: March 13, 2020
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 […]
Data & Metadata: Working Group Report and Future Outlook
Posted on: January 15, 2018
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 […]
Data and metadata: Reporting from the citizen science data and service infrastructure meeting in Italy
Posted on: February 9, 2016
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 […]
Introducing the Data and Metadata Working Group
Posted on: November 12, 2015
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, […]
PPSR_CORE Metadata Standard
Posted on: October 9, 2015
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 […]
Efforts underway to share project metadata
Posted on: June 11, 2015
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 […]