In this paper, we present our ideas on how to best support researchers in every phase of the research process when dealing with their research data. We propose a Research Data Portal as the central data infrastructure. With the help of this portal, a researcher can easily manage and update his or her research data, share it with collaborators, and reach out to the public. We further propose a Citizen Science Portal, which includes some new and innovative concepts and methods. In this portal, Citizen Science and Auto Science concepts are applied, and support to bring together the best of both worlds is provided. Citizen Science promises to entail the individual (scientists and hobby scientists) to help with research. Auto Science is meant to help analyze research data, e.g., to help publish the data and to help improve its quality, by applying methods from artificial intelligence

Hauswirth, Manfred

Kirstein, Fabian

Schimmler, Sonja

Urbanek, Sebastian

Wünsche, Hannes

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www.ssoar.infoGrowing Open Science with the Combined Potentialof Citizen Science and Auto ScienceSchimmler, Sonja; Kirstein, Fabian; Urbanek, Sebastian; Wünsche, Hannes;Hauswirth, ManfredErstveröffentlichung / Primary PublicationKonferenzbeitrag / conference paperEmpfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation:Schimmler, . S., Kirstein, F., Urbanek, S., Wünsche, H., & Hauswirth, M. (2019). Growing Open Science with theCombined Potential of Citizen Science and Auto Science. In Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019"Challenges of Digital Inequality - Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life". Berlin https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.26Nutzungsbedingungen:Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY Lizenz (Namensnennung) zurVerfügung gestellt. Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen findenSie hier:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.deTerms of use:This document is made available under a CC BY Licence(Attribution). For more Information see:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0PROCEEDINGS OF THE WEIZENBAUM CONFERENCE 2019CHALLENGES OF DIGITAL INEQUALITYDIGITAL EDUCATION | DIGITAL WORK | DIGITAL LIFEGROWING OPEN SCIENCEWITH THE COMBINED POTENTIALOF CITIZEN SCIENCE AND AUTO SCIENCESonja Schimmler1,3, Fabian Kirstein1,3, Sebastian Urbanek1,3,Hannes Wu¨nsche1,3 & Manfred Hauswirth1,2,31Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society2TU Berlin3Fraunhofer FOKUSBerlin, Germany{first.last}@fokus.fraunhofer.deAbstractIn this paper, we present our ideas on how to best support researchers in every phase of theresearch process when dealing with their research data.We propose a Research Data Portal as the central data infrastructure. With the help of thisportal, a researcher can easily manage and update his or her research data, share it withcollaborators, and reach out to the public.We further propose a Citizen Science Portal, which includes some new and innovative conceptsand methods. In this portal, Citizen Science and Auto Science concepts are applied, andsupport to bring together the best of both worlds is provided. Citizen Science promises toentail the individual (scientists and hobby scientists) to help with research. Auto Science ismeant to help analyze research data, e.g., to help publish the data and to help improve itsquality, by applying methods from artificial intelligence.KeywordsResearch Data; Open Science; Citizen Science; Auto ScienceDOI:10.34669/wi.cp/2.261 IntroductionThe Weizenbaum Institute is an interdisci-plinary research institute committed to OpenScience. In the current start-up phase of theinstitute, we try to gain an understanding ofa researcher’s daily life and try to activelysupport it: (i) We need to understand howthe researchers’ individual research processeslook like, what tools they use, and what re-search data they produce. (ii) In parallel, wetry to design an Open Science-friendly envi-ronment, and try to motivate and supportthe researchers when working in this environ-ment.Our goal is to achieve Open Science by De-sign, namely to install Open Science as anintegral part of our institute’s culture.This has to be done on an organizational aswell as on a technical level. In this paper,we will concentrate on the latter. As shownin Figure 1, we will focus on the support forhandling research data, and on how scientistsand hobby scientists could be better involved.Hobby ScientistsResearch DataScientistsFigure 1: Scientists & Hobby Scientists2 VisionOur idea is to create an Open Science Portal(see Figure 2), which is tailored to the needsof the Weizenbaum Institute. The key idea isthat we design and use this portal in our dailyresearch. It mainly consists of two parts – aResearch Data Portal and a Citizen SciencePortal.2.1 Research Data PortalWe see a Research Data Portal as the cen-tral point of a researcher’s daily life. Withthe help of the portal, a researcher can easilymanage and update his or her research data,share it with collaborators, and reach out tothe public.One essential feature is that it will providea simple way of exchanging data with othertools, the scientist uses. One of our key de-sign decisions is that a researcher will have aResearcher’s Identity, and all of his or her re-search output is tied to this identity, in orderto support data sovereignty and data prove-nance.Easy data exchange with other toolsCitizen Science PortalResearch Data PortalInvolve hobby scientistsManage & update dataShare it with collaboratorsReach out to the publicResearcher’s identityData tied to itOpen Science Portaldata exchangeFigure 2: Open Science Portal for theWeizenbaum InstituteChallenges (i) While most research dataplatforms are tailored to a specific discipline,the platform is planned for an interdisciplinaryenvironment. The main challenge here will beto find a good balance between generality andspecificality.Current Status In a first step, we haveanalyzed different open source research dataplatforms (cf. Wilkinson et al. 2016; Amorimet al. 2017) and evaluated three promisingcandidates in more detail: DSpace1, Zenodo2and CKAN3. Based on this evaluation, we de-cided to use DSpace (Smith et al. 2003), as it1 duraspace.org/dspace2 zenodo.org3 ckan.orgmatches most of our requirements, and as it iswidely used among our partner institutions.Following this first step, we have started totailor this open source research data portalto our specific needs. We can base this onour experience in developing open data plat-forms, e.g., the European Open Data Por-tal4, which was launched 3 years ago, hasabout 30.000 visitors a month, and encom-passes over 860.000 data sets.In parallel, in order to tackle challenge (i),we will stay in close contact with the differentresearch groups and the different protagonistsof the Weizenbaum Institute.2.2 Citizen Science PortalTo further support researchers when dealingwith their data, we want to apply new andinnovative concepts and methods, which areintegrated in a Citizen Science Portal. Ourmain idea is to apply Citizen Science andAuto Science concepts, and to bring togetherthe best of both worlds. Citizen Science pro-mises to entail the individual (scientists andhobby scientists) to help with research. AutoScience (Weber 2017) is meant to help ana-lyze research data, e.g., to help publish thedata and to help improve its quality, by ap-plying methods from artificial intelligence.Challenges (i) At the moment, many Cit-izen Science projects face the challenge thatneither a critical mass of hobby scientists, norpeople with the “right” background are at-tracted. (ii) Furthermore, hobby scientistsare mostly involved in a crowdsourcing-fashion,namely to collect and clean data. Promi-nent examples from the USA are Galaxy Zoo(astronomy), Foldit (biochemistry) and Poly-math (mathematics) (Franzoni and Sauermann2014). (iii) Last but not least, new and inno-vative concepts and methods are needed in4 www.europeandataportal.euorder to realize our Citizen Science Portal asenvisioned.Current Status To this point, we have com-pleted our first proof-of-concept implementa-tion of the Citizen Science Portal. In orderto address challenge (i), the main idea is thatlarge interactive screens will be placed in pub-lic, and that the Citizen Science projects willbe executed in this environment. There existsimilar ideas from the crowdsourcing-domain,e.g., (Goncalves et al. 2013).As next steps, we will try to address chal-lenges (ii) and (iii) by experimenting withsome new and innovative interaction techniquesas well as with Citizen Science and Auto Sci-ence concepts. In order to gain first insights,we plan to perform 2-3 Citizen Science projectsfrom the research agenda of the WeizenbaumInstitute.3 ConclusionsIn this paper, we have presented our ideason how to best support researchers in everyphase of the research process when dealingwith their research data.From our point of view, the most innovativepotential of our proposal lies in the in-depthintegration of Research Data Portal and Citi-zen Science Portal, and in the combination ofCitizen Science and Auto Science concepts.4 References1. Amorim, Ricardo Carvalho et al. (2017).“A Comparison of Research Data Man-agement Platforms: Architecture, FlexibleMetadata and Interoperability”. In: Uni-versal Access in the Information Society16.4, pp. 851–862.2. Franzoni, Chiara and Henry Sauermann(2014). “Crowd Science: The Organizationof Scientific Research in Open Collabora-tive Projects”. In: Research Policy 43.1,pp. 1–20.3. Goncalves, Jorge et al. (2013). “Crowd-sourcing on the Spot: Altruistic Use of Pub-lic Displays, Feasibility, Performance, andBehaviours”. In: 2013 ACM InternationalJoint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiq-uitous Computing. ACM, pp. 753–762.4. Smith, MacKenzie et al. (2003). “DSpace:An Open Source Dynamic Digital Reposi-tory”. In: D-Lib Magazine 9.1.5. Weber, Silke (2017). “Der Start-up Medi-ziner (Madisch, Research Gate)”. In: ZeitOnline.6. Wilkinson, Mark et al. (2016). “The FAIRGuiding Principles for Scientific Data Man-agement and Stewardship”. In: ScientificData 3.

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