Citizen Science Project Builder | Citizen Science Center Zurich

"The Citizen Science Project Builder is a web-based tool that allows researchers, students, and all members of the public to create and run Citizen Science Projects.... 

What is the aim of the CS Project Builder? The CS Project Builder facilitates the implementation of CS projects by providing an interface that requires limited technical knowledge, and ideally little or no coding skills. Its aim is to facilitate the co-creation of Citizen Science projects by starting with the implementation of simple pilots. Anybody with an idea for a data classification project can implement it here, as long as it complies with the platform criteria ....

A bit of history ... The web interface for the CS Project Builder is inspired by the now discontinued Crowdcrafting platform. Its implementation is based on the open source crowdsourcing framework PyBossa. The code is publicly available under the ‘CitizenScienceCenter’ organisation on Github."

"Anybody can create a project in the platform, as long it obeys to the following criteria:

• The project’s topic and goals have clear scientific and/or social interest.
• The project objectives and desired outcomes are communicated in the project description in an accessible and comprehensible manner.
• The objectives of the project are impossible – or very hard - to achieve without the contribution of the citizens....
• Data generated by the project follows the EC principle 'as open as possible, as closed as necessary', which focuses encouraging as few restrictions as possible, while at the same time protecting sensitive data from inappropriate access.
• The results of the project are published in an open-access format, provided there are no legitimate, legal, or ethical arguments against doing so."