Zooniverse research (2016-2017 archive)

Playground for Jim, Darren, and Aaron to build up a project analyzing volunteer management in the Zooniverse.

Action items for next meeting

• Read Best Practices Guide (all sections) for Zooniverse Project Builder.
• Keep doing classifications to familiarize with projects.
• Find a structured/methodical way to read a bunch of talk/forum interactions between Science Team members and volunteers.
  • Suggested projects included: GalaxyZoo2, PlanetHunters, Snapshot Serengeti, SpaceWarps.
  • Take notes about the kinds of interactions you observe with an eye towards which ones might embody different leadership/management practices and styles (start w. Zhu et al's "shared leadership" categories and build from there) that could lead to different volunteer behaviors.
• reading and lit review from Zotero directory

Pending Action Items

• Build out planning document draft based on Aaron's rough rationale for the project.
• More reading
  • volunteer engagement
  • leadership
  • community management
  • citizen science
  • Kevin Crowston
  • Oesterlund
  • Andrea Wiggins
  • Rob Simpson
  • Chris Lintott (academic director of zooniverse)

Meeting logs

04-04-16: talked about predicted probabilities for unrelated projects; revised and updated work goals for next week. 03-29-16: laid out plans for the quarter; set some preliminary work goals.

Goals

Spring 2016

• Fully developed planning document including a thorough analysis plan.
• A cleaned up dataset (variables and measures that we can model; not just raw database records).