From open access to citizen science: opening participation within the SSH disciplines through the PLACES and COESO projects
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We are now at the second floor. This session will be about the aspect participation of the second floor with additional publications from a wide range of components, not just the European perspective,
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and the participation of the group on the other side of the room. I would like to say that the floor is open for any questions you may have. I would like to ask the floor is open and then we will ask for an English question.
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The floor is open for any questions you may have. I would like to ask the floor is open and then we will ask for an English question.
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The floor is open for any questions you may have. I would like to ask the floor is open for any questions you may have.
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I would like to ask the floor is open for any questions you may have. I would like to ask the floor is open for any questions you may have.
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I would like to ask the floor is open for any questions you may have.
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I would like to ask the floor is open for any questions you may have. Today we will talk only about a small part of this universe.
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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to have this presentation today, even in English. Thank you so much. I will share the slides. I need that the previous sharing stopped before sharing mine.
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If you can stop sharing. Thank you. I need now to find my slides and to go full screen. That's it.
03:21
So me and Stephanie will alternate for the slides. So I let Stephanie start with the main environment of our presentation. Yes. Thank you, Alessia. In our presentation, we would like to answer two of the questions that you as organizers proposed for the conference topic.
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And that is what form can social participation in scientific knowledge take through open access? The second one is what opportunities for social participation are enhanced by open access?
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Now, the European Union has developed eight major ambitions for its open science policy, which in turn guide their policy decisions. And one of these ambitions is citizen science. Now, citizen science cannot stand alone, but it's, of course, interconnected with the other ambitions.
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So the sun that you can see in this graph can only shine brightly if all the all the goals together are pursued. So, for instance, we need open data for successful citizen science projects.
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But citizen science also builds skills and educates people. The course or project that we are going to present in this talk focuses on the social sciences and humanities and with social sciences and humanities or SSH.
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In short, there's a variety of particularities that many of the disciplines share. For instance, there's a diversity of different publication languages, different national languages, and also cultural backgrounds of researchers.
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There are specific forms of scholarly communication and a general lack of funding. And these particularities lead to specific needs for participatory research that we're going to talk about in this presentation. That's also the whole conference topic.
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What is important to state is that citizen science is nothing new in the SSH. The practices associated with citizen science have already been there before and before the umbrella term citizen science came to be widely used. Other terms that have been used are participatory science, public history, science for society, community science, etc.
06:14
We briefly presented two projects. The first one is the places project that gathered four partners in France.
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The School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, so the school where I work in, and three media organizations that you see here. Cafe Babela, Baminute, and Bingeo Diop. We started such a project with the aim to overcome one of what we think to be an obstacle to a good understanding of societal issues.
06:47
That is the excessive compartmentalization of the professional practices of journalists and SSH researchers. So the first objective of the places project was to bring researchers and journalists to work together on the same investigation.
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That's to say, the final subject to study, explore a field and produce a common analysis of it, and even shape together the final product that they will broadcast. Three pilots project was implemented in InSense.
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The participant had the full autonomy to carry out the investigation and they covered the issues about migration, gender and health. The second objective of the places project was to observe this fieldwork, this collaboration between researchers and journalists as they were implemented.
07:44
And we observed them in order to identify the obstacles, the support, the needs and the successes during their research. The final research report contains the first recommendation for the development of a digital platform, aiming to sustain and develop such type of collaboration.
08:04
So here you find the link to the project, it is in French. Maybe hopefully we will translate to the final report in English so it will be available soon. Places was a proof of concept for a larger project, the COESO-1, that today gathers 15 partners, three third parties and six countries.
08:29
We have six academic research centers, two public and one private foundation, three as me, and five associations and one NGO. So you see, we try to gather together really a huge diversity of partners within the project.
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The structure of the project is the same of the places one, but with more pilots and addressing more societal challenges and involving more societal actors.
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So as a general aim, COESO contributes to overcoming the obstacles that hinder the development of citizen science in the SSH. And we wish to facilitate and support these activities through a service-first approach. What does this mean? In other words, we are building a service to announce citizen science activities in the SSH.
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Now we have 10 pilots in this project and we will develop actually the platform to support the collaboration. But we also collaborate with research funding organization to enhance financial support to citizen science.
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Then we will try also to expand the knowledge and the practices of public engagement through mutual learning exercise that will take place with the project participation, the pilot's participation. And finally, we will develop also a tool, the cooperation analytics, to measure the quality of the collaboration.
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And you will find also the link to the project if you wish to know more. Please, Stephanie. Yes, thank you. The SSH social sciences and humanities, they require a specific form of citizen science.
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And that means that participatory activities are often much more important than, let's say, the typical crowdsourced activities and participatory activities.
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What does it mean? It means that the partners, they have a shared research question. They share a methodology for collecting and analyzing data. They share the production of new research outputs and they respect each other's epistemic cultures while working together.
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Which is very important to keep in mind. And very often it's not individuals, private individual people who participate in these activities, but it's rather organizations such as NGOs, civil society organizations, associations, small businesses, journalists, artists and other groups.
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People with a strong background in some form, very diverse, but some form of organization. And in Queso, as Alessia mentioned, there's going to be 10 pilots. Five have already been selected and they have started their work.
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And five more will be selected through an open call that opens in about a month's time. And they will all be good examples of how citizen science is carried out in the SSH. I'm briefly walking you through the five pilots that have already started their work.
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The first one gathers history and social anthropology, sorry, social anthropology researchers on the one hand, and sustainable development association members, local inhabitants and local authorities on the other hand. With the aim to understand mass tourism and urban transformations in Lisbon, Portugal.
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The second one brings together philosophy and performance studies researchers with dancers and choreographers in one project. To understand how to empower people and how to tackle gender issues through the joint practice of dance and philosophy.
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So transdisciplinary, if you want, then transmedia as well. Pilot three and four are both examples of a collaboration between social sciences researchers and journalists on the topic of organized crime.
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Pilot three is about how to elicit good governance practices through solutions journalism. And pilot four is about how to foster investigative reporting's impact on tackling corruption, collusion and inequality risks in civil society.
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So you can see that's a really wide range of disciplines, topics and also methodologies. These have all been examples of participatory activities and pilot five, which is also being a research driven and participatory project.
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It also includes elements of crowdsourced activities. And it's mostly about gathering historians, lay citizens. Sorry, my screen is acting weird.
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It gathers historians, lay citizens and practitioners from governmental sectors and NGOs. And it's about historical handwritten letters and the question of migrant knowledge with the aim to develop a systematic collaboration for addressing contemporary migration issues.
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The Vera platform, the platform that we support such kind of collaboration and for the participatory research in general involving the SSH, will be built on the ipotest.org platform that many of us maybe already know.
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So we will build on the community of ipotest.org and the experience that Open Edition built in developing the platform. So you know ipotest.org is an international academic blogging platform dedicated to the social sciences and the humanities.
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It is unique for its size and scope as a dedicated platform for renewing scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities through the practice of blogging. We have a catalogue with almost 4000 blogs and in 2020 we registered 17 million species.
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It's also an international platform with around 40% of the produced content that is not in French. And the other languages are mainly English, German and Spanish.
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It is open for all researchers and academic institutions and the German community is coordinated by the Max Weber Stick Room. So why building on ipotest.org? Because the researchers that are engaged in scholarly communication through ipotest.org form a community open to experimenting with the new forms of academic communication, international, interdisciplinary and open to society.
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So we really built on the community, not only on the tool of blogging but on the community of ipotest.org. The platform already hosts blogs for citizen science projects in the SSH, either as a reflexivity space outside the field where they are working,
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or as a support for the ongoing research on the field for communicating partial research, analysis, and hypothesis between the partners.
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Through this tool they share results, analysis and tools. They also use ipotesis more conventionally for disseminating and informing in relation with their project. Please Stefan. Now what is the relationship between open access and citizen science?
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We want to reiterate that these are not two concepts that are isolated from each other, but actually the opposite is true. So citizen scientists need access to resources, obviously, but it's not enough for research publications to be accessed by researchers.
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But every partner in this whole research process, in this participatory research project design needs access to resources. So this includes publications, of course, but also data.
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And access also means that the metadata are fair, which means they are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable of data in general. And at the same time, citizen scientists produce knowledge that is of interest not only to the researchers themselves with access to the infrastructure where the results are stored, wherever that might be, often behind paywalls, but also to broader audience.
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And that leads to a need for open infrastructures, making sure that open access and citizen science do not exist as isolated concepts next to each other, but that they make use of what the other has to offer and can do so in a coordinated and hassle-free manner.
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So, easy, simple and easy. So why we need to rely on open and shared infrastructure? Because we need them to collaborate between each other and we need them to be interconnected.
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We need working together on their interoperability and sustainability to make them interconnected. And we need to do that because we need to bridge community of practices. This is one of the main particularities of the openness to citizen science.
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We really need to build community of practices around research topic and research methodologies and research in general. We need also to connect the open science ambitions that we have seen in the sun at the beginning.
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And we also wish to contribute to building a sustainable open science environment. So this is why the Research for Society Service has to say the platform will be too cohesive. We rely on one strong infrastructure and one even stronger distributed European infrastructure such as OPRAS.
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This is a general schema to what we will build. We say that the Vera platform will bridge communities and tools.
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So at the center you see what the platform will provide. This is to say at least a matching service for people to know each other, collaboration tools and services to make people work together on the same project
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and the possibility to be funded through a specific link to a funding database. So this is the first, the digital space. But bridging people and project in the digital space is not enough. And because citizen science is really anchored in local places and with local communities.
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So that's why we wish to make bridges and collaboration also with libraries, as well as with science shops just to make two examples. Because it's never only about bringing people to use services,
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but through these services and open access and citizen science uses services as they are not only services but they use services. So linking people to the services is about announcing good research practices, innovating collaboration and opening the mind also to new frontiers practices,
21:23
again and methodologies. So Stephanie for the conclusions. The conclusions, I want to come back to the initial questions. What form can social participation and scientific knowledge take through open access? And what opportunities for social participation are enhanced by open access?
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So the first conclusion would be that participatory research and citizen science are one of the forms that social participation and scientific knowledge can take. The second one, the very existence of the open access services and open science mindsets facilitates citizen science practices.
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The third one, open access and open science environments enhance participatory research and citizen science involving SSH disciplines. And by doing so, they contribute to tackling societal issues.
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Why? Because having easy access to relevant knowledge means that stakeholders outside of academia can reflect on social issues. And the fourth and last one, both open access and citizen science communities will benefit from strengthening their collaboration to build sustainable open science environments.
22:45
So just the last slide to say thank you for the attention. And we are open to questions. And I apologize, I'm not speaking German, but I will be glad to hear the translation of your questions.
23:02
Thank you very much, Alessia and Stephanie. And I think the language issue would be my first question, because what I think is one of Europe's greatest treasure, but also biggest challenge is the multilingualism.
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And I asked myself while listening to you, how do you deal with this challenge? Because the general public, how do you define general public? Is it the public who speaks a certain language?
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Or is there a solution or an idea for dealing with the different nations, with the different languages? Maybe just saying, okay, you support mostly English and French projects?
24:02
There are two levels. There is the level of the service, the platform service that has to take on multilingualism. And that must be sold through localization solutions and this kind of technical solution for the platform. And then you have the level of the implementation of the project.
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And as far as citizen science projects are local, this drives the language and the research framework has to adapt to the locality of the researchers. But this is really a general challenge that is taken by all the citizen science projects
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that are currently running in Europe. And we are trying also to work together to find ways to harmonize, for example, a questionnaire or a consentment form,
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these kinds of things that need to be managed to run a citizen science project, to provide the translation that can be taken as such to share the knowledge and to have a common framework also.
25:23
Yeah, because I very often ask myself how to deal with this. I'd like the audience also to ask some questions. Otherwise, it's very frontal.
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What also strikes me, maybe this is also why I asked this question about language, is I really like this universe that is built and provided by OPRAS and other projects.
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Because I think it's so interesting to see what happens on European level linking open access, open science, citizen science with the general public.
26:21
Is the question, how do you bring information about this to the general public? Because it's not so easy to understand. Maybe the audience, you all know that there's a German project on OPRAS. I think you two already had some presentations there,
26:44
because people very often have not knowledge about the projects, the very interesting projects you support and you're engaged in. Yeah, the national notes are the answer,
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because the community is distributed around Europe. So each country that is member of OPRAS has national notes that is being structured, not all the countries have already a national structure, but many of them. And the national notes in Spain, Italy, France, Germany,
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has this role to link the different level, the very local level, not only to say what OPRAS has to say, but to bring to OPRAS what the community has to say and their needs.
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And this is a very, the note role is fundamental. This is how the European OPRAS community can work. Stephanie, do you wish to add something? Yeah, I just want to complement that.
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It's very important to have the link, because on the other hand, there's so many national projects and national, not just projects, but also long-term things happening to link back to the European level. So it's not just one way, it's two way.
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And then, of course, then also linking to other national projects. So it's a, if you want, multidimensional endeavor, which is not easy. I mean, but it's very, very important. And this is now still the level of academia very much.
28:44
So I think the next step then will be to, you know, to address the general public. Alessia, is that okay? Okay, so thank you very much.