In the Zooinverse blog, there are quite a few posts about "jobs with the Zooniverse"; for example:
This thread, I hope, will be about something quite different; namely, what volunteer roles (and hence "career") you could have, within the Zooniverse.
The first role, and arguably the most important, is one all ~1.5 million of us have, citizen scientist' ... I click, I classify, I transcribe; ergo I am a citizen scientist.
Perhaps a role that is just as 'old' is moderator; it goes back to the earliest days of the Galaxy Zoo forum (now archived), and is pretty much the same as what it is in any internet (discussion) forum (yes, there are aspects of the v2 (Ouroboros) and v3 (Panoptes) Talks which make it somewhat different). There may be a hierarchy of moderators; this source mentions "head moderator" and "the lead moderator".
Next, chronologically, may be Science Team member; the first examples are (as far as I know) the Space Warps team (see the SW blog post, A Postcard from Zurich).
Also, starting several years' ago, there's co-author (of a paper published in a relevant, peer-reviewed, journal). Citizen scientists who are active members of a Z Project's Science Team are always (?) co-authors of that project's main papers. But you can be a co-author without being on a Science Team. The PH blog post A Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates Part 2 gives some idea of this role.
There's also workshop participant, a role in which you represent (perhaps a subset of) volunteers at an official Zooniverse workshop. Some examples are outlined in these Z blog posts: Zooniverse Teacher Ambassadors Workshop, Project Workshop Winners, Voyage to Teaching in the Zooniverse – A Teacher Workshop in Chicago.
Some volunteers have also been blog post writers, mostly second-hand (a blog editor copy/pastes their material into the blog). Example, Budgieye's NGC7252: The Atoms-For-Peace Galaxy.
Perhaps the rarest role, and one that's a bit outside the Zooniverse, is CSA Advisory Board member (CSA: Citizen Science Alliance; "Our projects live within the ‘Zooniverse’, the home of Citizen Science on the web"). It seems that there are only two volunteers in this role, Alice Sheppard and Julia Wilkinson (source).
Other roles? There are surely some; for example "beta testers", volunteers who "beta test" new Z projects (you can become one by first selecting "Get beta project email updates" in the Email part of your Settings, then joining a beta test when you're notified).
Are there other roles? In your Zooniverse career, could you realistically aspire to all/any of the roles?
What do you think?
In the Zooinverse blog, there are quite a few posts about "jobs with the Zooniverse"; for example:
This thread, I hope, will be about something quite different; namely, what volunteer roles (and hence "career") you could have, within the Zooniverse.
The first role, and arguably the most important, is one all ~1.5 million of us have, citizen scientist' ... I click, I classify, I transcribe; ergo I am a citizen scientist.
Perhaps a role that is just as 'old' is moderator; it goes back to the earliest days of the Galaxy Zoo forum (now archived), and is pretty much the same as what it is in any internet (discussion) forum (yes, there are aspects of the v2 (Ouroboros) and v3 (Panoptes) Talks which make it somewhat different). There may be a hierarchy of moderators; this source mentions "head moderator" and "the lead moderator".
Next, chronologically, may be Science Team member; the first examples are (as far as I know) the Space Warps team (see the SW blog post, A Postcard from Zurich).
Also, starting several years' ago, there's co-author (of a paper published in a relevant, peer-reviewed, journal). Citizen scientists who are active members of a Z Project's Science Team are always (?) co-authors of that project's main papers. But you can be a co-author without being on a Science Team. The PH blog post A Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates Part 2 gives some idea of this role.
There's also workshop participant, a role in which you represent (perhaps a subset of) volunteers at an official Zooniverse workshop. Some examples are outlined in these Z blog posts: Zooniverse Teacher Ambassadors Workshop, Project Workshop Winners, Voyage to Teaching in the Zooniverse – A Teacher Workshop in Chicago.
Some volunteers have also been blog post writers, mostly second-hand (a blog editor copy/pastes their material into the blog). Example, Budgieye's NGC7252: The Atoms-For-Peace Galaxy.
Perhaps the rarest role, and one that's a bit outside the Zooniverse, is CSA Advisory Board member (CSA: Citizen Science Alliance; "Our projects live within the ‘Zooniverse’, the home of Citizen Science on the web"). It seems that there are only two volunteers in this role, Alice Sheppard and Julia Wilkinson (source).
Other roles? There are surely some; for example "beta testers", volunteers who "beta test" new Z projects (you can become one by first selecting "Get beta project email updates" in the Email part of your Settings, then joining a beta test when you're notified).
Are there other roles? In your Zooniverse career, could you realistically aspire to all/any of the roles?
What do you think?
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