Data charter and guide for citizen science

The citizen science data charter and guide contains recommendations and tips for handling data in citizen science projects. The principles set out in this document will guide actors in citizen science to generating and storing findable, reusable and interoperable data.

Citizen science aspects

With the Data Charter for Citizen Science, Scivil, the Flemish knowledge centre for citizen science (CS), provides a guide to achieving well-documented data in a citizen-science project. The charter is for everyone who wants to start or participate in a citizen-science project, i.e. both project initiators and participants (citizen scientists) from all sectors of the so-called ‘quadruple helix’ (citizens, public authorities, scientific institutions, private organisations). A citizen-science project is any project that attempts to gather knowledge or insights in a scientifically responsible manner, together with or by citizens.