The document discusses different models for integrating public participation into institutions like museums and libraries. It examines moving from a traditional top-down model to a more collaborative model. It outlines three levels of public participation in citizen science: contributory projects where the public contributes data, collaborative projects where the public also helps with design and analysis, and co-created projects where scientists and the public work together on all aspects of a project. The document advocates balancing internal expertise at these institutions with external public expertise and looks to different models in science for how to structure public participation. It provides some examples from the New York Public Library of applying contributory, collaborative and co-created models of participation.
32. 3 models for public
participation in science:
• Contributory projects, which are generally designed by
scientists and for which members of the public primarily
contribute data
• Collaborative projects, which are generally designed by
scientists and for which members of the public contribute
data but also may help to refine project design, analyze data,
or disseminate findings
• Co-created projects, which are designed by scientists
and members of the public working together and for which
at least some of the public participants are actively involved
in most or all steps of the scientific process.
76. Contributory:
Georectification
Homework Help search data
Usability Testing
Collaborative:
Candide 2.0
Extracting geo features
Co-created:
Homework Help widgets
someone has to make those choices: chooser, gatekeeper, interpreter
downstream flow of knowledge (from PUS)
Pendulum swing to wisdom of crowds
Pushed to not include our own metadata as tags - devaluing our own expertise while chasing crowd
Pushed to not include our own metadata as tags - devaluing our own expertise while chasing crowd
Pushed to not include our own metadata as tags - devaluing our own expertise while chasing crowd
Open source, “Free as in Kittens”, usability survey tool
AVerage 11 questions answered per person
Since February, over 110,000 responses from over 10,000 respondents
Digitization means more than imaging
Current focus is on building better community management tools, and exploring mechanisms from game design to make participation more individually rewarding
