Folkeforskning: Forskning for alle?
Bli med på den nyoppstartede seminarserien Lunsj med Åpen Vitenskap. Denne gangen er tema utfordringer og muligheter knyttet til folkeforskning og datainnhenting utenfor forskningsinstitusjonene.
Hovedinnhold
Seminaret vil vere på engelsk.
Grab you matpakke and join us for a short presentation on citizen science and for an open Q&A session afterwards!
Research areas such as biology cannot possibly gather all the data it ideally needs over time and space. These fields are increasingly using citizen science; members of the public who voluntarily gather and share their observations. This allows for analyses that are impossible to achieve any other way, and with data hungry methods such as AI, this will only become more important. With the added benefit of increasing public engagement, it remains a hot topic across disciplines. But are there downsides to citizen science? Are data collected by citizens as reliable as other data, and how unbiased are they?
In this talk, Wouter Koch (Artsdatabanken) will discuss the importance of citizen science data, its challenges and the ways to try to cope with these issues.
The event is open to everybody and you can join online on Zoom (Zoom link here).
