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Public Underst Sci
2018[Jul]; 27
(5
): 515-534
PMID27903808
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Crowd science is scientific research that is conducted with the participation of
volunteers who are not professional scientists. Thanks to the Internet and online
platforms, project initiators can draw on a potentially large number of
volunteers. This crowd can be involved to support data-rich or labour-intensive
projects that would otherwise be unfeasible. So far, research on crowd science
has mainly focused on analysing individual crowd science projects. In our
research, we focus on the perspective of project initiators and explore how crowd
science projects are set up. Based on multiple case study research, we discuss
the objectives of crowd science projects and the strategies of their initiators
for accessing volunteers. We also categorise the tasks allocated to volunteers
and reflect on the issue of quality assurance as well as feedback mechanisms.
With this article, we contribute to a better understanding of how crowd science
projects are set up and how volunteers can contribute to science. We suggest that
our findings are of practical relevance for initiators of crowd science projects,
for science communication as well as for informed science policy making.
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