From conservation to crowdsourcing: A typology of citizen science

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wiggins, Andrea ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COLLECTIVE GOALS; CROWDSOURCING; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS; PROJECT GOALS; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; VIRTUAL COLLABORATION;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 79952913656     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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