CS Inventory Vocabulary
An inventory of citizen science activities for environmental policies
| Property | Label | On Types | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| active | Still active | Project | Indication (yes/no) if the project is still active.
Allowed values: Yes, No |
| category | Primary category of project | Project | Adapted from on Haklay et al. (2013) Citizen Science and Policy: A European Perspective.
See the attributes of the "selected practices in citizen science for environmental policy" for other potential categories of projects impacted. Allowed values: Passive sensing, Crowd-sourcing, Volunteer computing, Monitoring, Occasional reporting, DIY engineering, Civic science, Facilitating platform |
| environmental_classification | Environmental Classification | EnvironmentalClassification | The environmental classification of the project, including the primary environmental domain and field addressed by the project activities. |
| geographic_coverage | Geographic coverage | Project | The countries involved in the project team/consortium (comma separated list; lead country first). Naming for countries follows https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search (English short name + "Europe" + "World"). |
| geographic_extent | Geographical extent | Project | The spatial scale at which the project is implemented. Sub-national is used as generic category for projects for which the sub-national scale is not known (i.e. regional, or city, or neighborhood). All regional, city and neighborhood projects are also sub-national projects.
Allowed values: Global, Macro-regional, National, Sub-national, Regional, City, Neighborhood |
| lead_organisation | Lead Organisation | LeadOrganisation | Information about the lead partner, including name and organisation type. |
| policy_relevance | Policy relevance | Project | Main phase of the policy cycle potentially impacted by the project actions. See the attributes of the "selected practices in citizen science for environmental policy" for other potential policy areas affected.
Allowed values: Problem definition, Early-warning, Policy implementation or monitoring, Policy evaluation, Compliance assurance, NA: no clear policy link |
| policy_aims | Policy aims | PolicyAims | The policy aims of the project, information on their existence (yes/no) and an explanation of this value. |
| sdg | SDG | Project | Indication of the possible impact of the project on each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, as defined by the United Nations (UN). |
| social_uptake | Social uptake | Project | Indication of number of participants or followers of the project. Assessed based on expert knowledge/reporting project contact point:
- Very large: large number of users, tradition, excellent EC-funded projects with high numbers of users (above 1,000). So: zooniverse, opal, ebird, ornitho and other big names, because of number of users. Old UK societies (from XVII century to late XX century), because of tradition; EC-funded projects that we would say excellent in review and with high number of users (above 1000) - Large: EC-funded projects that we would say good in review and with medium number of users (below 1000) - Considerable: all others Allowed values: Very large, Large, Considerable |
| source | Source | Project | Source of the project description record, i.e. how this description became available. The list of possible answer options (currently including "Original EC Study", "EUSurvey" and "Irish EPA") can be extended if new sources become available.
Allowed values: Original EC Study, EUSurvey, Irish EPA |