A Citizen Science and Smart City Summit, organised by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2014, identified the management of citizen-collected data as a major barrier to the re-usability and integration of these contributions across borders. We followed up on these find-ings with a Citizen Science survey, experiments on a repository for EU-funded Citizen Science projects, and discussions with the European and international Citizen Science community. This report summarises the outcomes of the survey. Amongst other findings, the 121 responses clearly underlined the diversity of projects in terms of topicality, funding mechanisms and geographic coverage, but also provided valuable insights relat-ed to the access and re-use conditions of project results. While, for example, 60% of the participat-ing projects follow a dedicated data management plan and a majority of projects provides access to raw or aggregated data, the exact use conditions are not always put into place or miss well-defined licenses. Apart from replies from all across the globe, this activity also helped us to connect to the relevant players. Discussions on data management in support of Citizen Science could already be initiated with representatives of the European, American and Australian Citizen Science associations.

SCHADE Sven;  TSINARAKI Chrysi; 

2016-05-18

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC101077

978-92-79-58387-2 (online),    978-92-79-63925-8,   

1831-9424,   

EUR 27920,    OP LB-NA-27920-EN-N (online),    OP LB-NA-27920-EN-E,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC101077,   

10.2788/539115 (online),    10.2788/00005,