Thousands of examining eyes: credibility, authority and validity in biodiversity citizen science data production
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| Titel: | Thousands of examining eyes: credibility, authority and validity in biodiversity citizen science data production |
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| Autoren: | Ekström, Björn |
| Quelle: | Aslib Journal of Information Management. 75(1):149-170 |
| Schlagwörter: | Information practices, Citizen science, Boundary objects, Credibility, Authority, Validity, Library and Information Science, Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap |
| Beschreibung: | PurposeThe purpose of this study is to contribute with knowledge about how valid research data in biodiversity citizen science are produced through information practices and how notions of credibility and authority emerge from these practices.Design/methodology/approachData were collected through an empirical, interview-based study of the information practices of 15 participants active in the vicinity of the Swedish biodiversity citizen science information system Artportalen. Interview transcripts were analysed abductively and qualitatively through a coding scheme by working back and forth between theory and data. Values of credibility, authority and validity of research data were unfolded through a practice-oriented perspective to library and information studies by utilising the theoretical lens of boundary objects.FindingsNotions of credibility, authority and validity emerge through participant activities of transforming species observations to data, supplementing reports with objects of trust, augmenting identification through authority outreach and assessing credibility via peer monitoring. Credibility, authority and validity of research data are shown to be co-constructed in a distributed fashion by the participants and the information system.Originality/valueThe article extends knowledge about information practices in emerging, heterogeneous scholarly settings by focussing on the complex co-construction of credibility, authority and validity in relation to data production. |
| Dateibeschreibung: | electronic |
| Zugangs-URL: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-27665 https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-10-2021-0292 |
| Datenbank: | SwePub |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | <strong>Purpose</strong>The purpose of this study is to contribute with knowledge about how valid research data in biodiversity citizen science are produced through information practices and how notions of credibility and authority emerge from these practices.<strong>Design/methodology/approach</strong>Data were collected through an empirical, interview-based study of the information practices of 15 participants active in the vicinity of the Swedish biodiversity citizen science information system Artportalen. Interview transcripts were analysed abductively and qualitatively through a coding scheme by working back and forth between theory and data. Values of credibility, authority and validity of research data were unfolded through a practice-oriented perspective to library and information studies by utilising the theoretical lens of boundary objects.<strong>Findings</strong>Notions of credibility, authority and validity emerge through participant activities of transforming species observations to data, supplementing reports with objects of trust, augmenting identification through authority outreach and assessing credibility via peer monitoring. Credibility, authority and validity of research data are shown to be co-constructed in a distributed fashion by the participants and the information system.<strong>Originality/value</strong>The article extends knowledge about information practices in emerging, heterogeneous scholarly settings by focussing on the complex co-construction of credibility, authority and validity in relation to data production. |
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| ISSN: | 20503806 20503814 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/AJIM-10-2021-0292 |