The December CRICC activity is “Citizen science, libraries and open knowledge”, by Isabelle Bonhoure, researcher and coordinator of the OpenSystems group at the University of Barcelona.
– Date: Wednesday, December 11 of 2024, from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
– Location: Classroom 321 (3rd floor) of the Faculty of Information and Media
Isabelle Bonhoure is a researcher and coordinator of the OpenSystems group at the University of Barcelona since 2013. She has participated in more than twenty local, national and European citizen science projects. Through the Citizen Science and Action project, funded by the Barcelona Provincial Council within the framework of the Bibliolab programme, she has done research on how to actively engage libraries as promoters and facilitators of citizen science projects. She has been involved in co-creating citizen science projects in a dozen primary and secondary school centers, focusing on the social concerns of students and particularly vulnerable neighborhoods. Currently, she coordinates the participation of the UB in the European project Open Urban Sustainability Hubs and its implementation through various entities, including public libraries.
The seminary will explore the synergies, existing and future, between citizen science and GLAM (galleries, librarians, archives, and museums), focusing on the case of libraries. Citizen science will be introduced, through its history, its different conceptual currents and its relationship with open science. It will also propose a reflection on the possible synergies between libraries and citizen science, exemplified through local and international projects. Finally, it will detail the European calls likely to be able to finance the implementation of this vision.
