Citizen Science (CS) projects provide a space for collaboration
among scientists and the general public as a basis for making joint
scientific discoveries. Analysis of existing datasets from CS projects can
broaden our understanding of how different stakeholder groups interact
and contribute to the joint achievements. To this end, we have collected
publicly available forum data from the “Chimp&See” project hosted on
the Zooniverse platform via crawling its Talk pages. The collected data
were ...
Citizen Science (CS) projects provide a space for collaboration
among scientists and the general public as a basis for making joint
scientific discoveries. Analysis of existing datasets from CS projects can
broaden our understanding of how different stakeholder groups interact
and contribute to the joint achievements. To this end, we have collected
publicly available forum data from the “Chimp&See” project hosted on
the Zooniverse platform via crawling its Talk pages. The collected data
were then analysed using Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Epistemic
Network Analysis (ENA) techniques. The results obtained shed light
on the participation and collaboration patterns of different stakeholder
groups within discussion forums of the “Chimp&See” project.
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