Simon Worthington

Upscaling Citizen Science in Research Libraries

The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group provides training material for practical implementation and leadership strategy of citizen science services. A focus is on how modern open science data infrastructure can be repurposed for citizen access and the steps needed to support researchers over the lifecycle of their citizen projects.

libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-citizen-science-working-group/

About

Simon Worthington (he/him) is a publishing technology researcher at the Open Science Lab, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hanover, Germany. 

At TIB he leads the library service Computational Publishing Service as part of the NFDI4Culture - Consortium for Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage and heads the Climate Knowledge Graph research project which is developing a knowledge graph to make UN IPCC climate change reports more accessible as FAIR linked open data.

He is co-chair of the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and Editor-in-Chief of the LIBER Citizen Science Guide for Research Libraries. He is co-founder of #semanticClimate open research group.

 

Contact details:

Email: simon.worthington@tib.eu

Computational Publishing Service: https://service.tib.eu/wikibase-data