Engage with Citizen Science – Open Tools from the Citizen Science Center Zurich
Workshop in Englisch
Have you ever thought about creating a Citizen Science project? If the idea intrigues you, join the workshop to learn how the Citizen Science Center Zurich is there to support you with its platforms and tools!
The Citizen Science Project Builder – a web-based tool that allows the co-creation of “data analysis” projects via a simple step-by-step procedure (no need of coding skills!) In such projects, contributors can enrich large sets of existing digital content, such as images or texts (ie. satellite pictures, social media posts, etc.) as well as other media formats such as videos, audios, and scanned documents.
The Citizen Science Logger – a smartphone-based component for the platform, that allows the creation of Apps featuring the functionalities most commonly used in “data collection” projects, for example taking geo-located images and adding additional information, or answering to questionnaires and surveys. As for the Project Builder, the platform allows easy creation of different
App configurations via a simple web interface that offers a menu of several ready-to-use components.
Join the workshop to try out the platforms and learn how to build your own data-analysis or data-collection project.