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, 2024 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
– 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 participated in more than twenty local, national and European citizen science projects. Through the project “Science and citizen action”, funded by the Diputació de Barcelona in the framework of the Bibliolab program, she did research on how to actively involve libraries as drivers and facilitators of citizen science projects. She participated in the co-creation of citizen science projects in a dozen primary and secondary schools, focusing on the social concerns of students and particularly vulnerable neighborhoods. Currently, she coordinates the UB’s participation in the European project Open Urban Sustainability Hubs and its implementation through various entities, including public libraries.
The seminar will explore the existing and future synergies between citizen science and GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, 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. A reflection on the possible synergies between libraries and citizen science, exemplified through local and international projects, will also be proposed. Finally, it will detail the European calls for proposals likely to finance the implementation of this vision.
