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Collaborative Research: Establishing Norms of Data Ethics in Citizen Science

合作研究：建立公民科学中的数据伦理规范

基本信息

批准号：
1835352
负责人：
Caren Cooper
金额：
$ 40万
依托单位：
North Carolina State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1835352&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Establishing Norms Data

项目摘要

Citizen science refers to a broad spectrum of ways in which scientists and members of the public collaborate in scientific discovery. Though the phrase ?citizen science? is relatively new, members of the lay public have been involved in with citizen science activities for centuries. Nevertheless, the current scale and rate of growth of citizen science, often mediated by digital communication technology, is a new phenomenon. Millions of people globally contribute to science through citizen science projects, often facilitated by mobile phones equipped with GPS, apps, and cameras. Increasing numbers of teachers and youth educators are introducing citizen science to children, and increasing numbers of professional scientists and research institutions are incorporating citizen science into their research programs. Citizen science has been rapidly spreading around the world and across disciplines. It is typically funded outside traditional institutions and conducted without the traditional regulatory oversight mechanisms that exist in institutions such as universities. This project will address these issues and the resulting ethics gap within citizen science. The project will focus on an issue common across nearly all citizen science projects - voluntary data collection and use, which presents an important ethical tension between confidentiality and openness. This research will involve: (1) identifying and encouraging ethical research by citizen scientists; and (2) building capacity within the Citizen Science Association to establish and maintain an ethical framework for this newly emerging form of organizing science work.The project is organized around a three stage, mixed-methods research design to investigate current and ideal ethical practices in citizen science and to use human-centered methodology to create an ethical culture of citizen science through collaboration with the Citizen Science Association. These outcomes will be achieved by: (1) creating an inventory and typology of data collection practices; (2) employing a mixture of surveys, interviews, and focus groups to determine the views of practitioners and volunteer data collectors on the ethics of data collection and management; (3) creating a guide for best ethical data practices; (4) disseminating tools for ethical practices in data science; and (5) assessing the use and efficacy of these tools and best practice trough the creation and dissemination of a quantitative survey of the ethical culture of the Citizen Science Association.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

公民科学是指科学家和公众在科学发现中合作的广泛方式。虽然这句话？公民科学是相对较新的，成员的外行公众已参与与公民科学活动了几个世纪。然而，公民科学目前的规模和增长速度，往往是由数字通信技术介导的，是一个新现象。全球数百万人通过公民科学项目为科学做出贡献，这些项目通常由配备GPS、应用程序和相机的移动的手机提供便利。越来越多的教师和青年教育工作者正在向儿童介绍公民科学，越来越多的专业科学家和研究机构正在将公民科学纳入其研究计划。公民科学在世界各地和跨学科迅速传播。它通常在传统机构之外获得资金，并且在没有大学等机构中存在的传统监管监督机制的情况下进行。该项目将解决这些问题和由此产生的公民科学伦理差距。该项目将侧重于几乎所有公民科学项目的一个共同问题-自愿数据收集和使用，这在保密性和开放性之间存在重要的伦理紧张关系。这项研究将涉及：（1）确认和鼓励公民科学家进行合乎伦理的研究;以及（2）在公民科学协会内部进行能力建设，以便为这种新出现的组织科学工作的形式建立和维持一个道德框架。该项目围绕三个阶段组织，混合方法的研究设计，以调查当前和理想的公民科学的道德实践，并使用人类，通过与公民科学协会的合作，以中心的方法论来创造公民科学的道德文化。这些成果将通过以下方式实现：（1）创建数据收集做法的清单和类型;（2）采用调查、访谈和焦点小组相结合的方式，以确定从业人员和志愿数据收集者对数据收集和管理的伦理问题的看法;（3）创建最佳伦理数据做法指南;（4）传播数据科学伦理做法工具;以及（5）通过创建和传播公民科学协会伦理文化的定量调查，评估这些工具和最佳实践的使用和有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。