社会科学领域公众科学项目研究

Research on Citizen Science Projects in Social Science

社会科学领域公众科学是开放科学运动浪潮推动下兴起的一种新型科学研究模式,其发展有利于社会科学领域数据密集型科研的开展、缓解公众对社会科学的信任危机和提高公众社会科学素养。本文通过系统梳理SciStarter、Zooniverse两个平台中现有的社会科学领域公众科学项目,归纳出项目类型,并对项目的运作流程进行分析。针对社会科学领域公众科学项目面临的挑战,项目组织机构应多措并举提升志愿者参与的意愿,采取有效措施控制数据质量,重视志愿者隐私保护,图书馆则可以通过承担信息资源提供者、志愿者的招募者和培训者、项目发起者、项目成果宣传者等角色助力社会科学领域公众科学发展。

Citizen science in the field of social science is a new scientific research mode promoted by the wave of open science movement,and its development is conducive to the development of data-intensive scientific research in the field of social science,alleviate the crisis of public confidence in the social science and the improvement of public social science literacy.This paper systematically sorts out citizen science projects in social science field in the two citizen science platforms SciStarter and Zooniverse,and summarize the project types,then analyzes the operation process of the project.To address the challenges of citizen science programs in the social science,project organizations need to take multiple measures to increase volunteers’willingness to participate projects,take effective measures to control data quality,attach importance to the protection of volunteers’privacy.Libraries can help the development of citizen science in social science fields by assuming the roles of information resource providers,volunteer recruiters and trainers,project initiators and project results propagators.