DocumentCode
110239
Title
Citizen Science [Guest editors´ introduction]
Author
Memarsadeghi, Nargess
Author_Institution
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Volume
17
Issue
4
fYear
2015
fDate
July-Aug. 2015
Firstpage
8
Lastpage
10
Abstract
In this introduction for the special issue on citizen science, the guest editor describes what is meant by citizen science and crowdsourcing projects as well as what their importance and impacts are. She also introduces some of the projects briefly and provides resources for accessing and learning more about citizen science projects.
Keywords
Collaboration; Globalization; Research and development; Science - general; Scientific computing; Special issues and sections; FPCCS; STEM; citizen science; crowdsourcing; distributed computing; education; scientific computing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computing in Science & Engineering
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1521-9615
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCSE.2015.72
Filename
7131421
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