CS4CS technical documentation
Introduction
CS4CS stands for Citizen Science for Citizen Science, i.e. a and it refers to a crowd sourcing and thinking project that aims to create an inventory of interesting citizen science projects.
CS4CS is embedded in EduTechWiki and accessible through a central hub page, called portal: citizen science
Participation
Anyone can participate. However since EduTechWiki is subject to heavy spamming attacks you will have to through a somewhat tedious registration procedure.
Once you got an account, you either can create new entries for projects, infrastructure and software, or you can modify existing entries.
Tips
- Unlike in a traditional wiki page, editing is done through forms, using the Edit with form button on top
Implementation
CS4CS was implemented with Semantic Forms. We used the following templates and forms:
| Entry types | Form | Template | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen science projects | form:Citizen science project | template:Citizen science project | |
| Citizen science infrastructure | form:Citizen science infrastructure | template:Citizen science infrastructure | |
| Citizen science software | form:Citizen science software | template:Citizen science software | |
| Bibliography item | form:BibliographyForm | template:Bibliography | This template is embedded in the citizen science projects form |
In addition, we will users so-called filters and query templates. As of Oct 15 2013, these are not yet implemented...