Section outline

  • Software and hardware are increasingly integral to running a citizen science project. This section provides an overview of the types of relevant software and hardware outputs from citizen science. It will also outline the tools to help publish the research and development lifecycle for software and hardware. 


    • What are open source software and hardware? Page
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      And why are they integral to open science?

    • Publishing software Page
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      Software is integral, sometimes in subtle ways, to many citizen science projects. It is worth being familiar with the ways to publish it as open science.

    • What about hardware? Page
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      Best practices for publishing software also applies to hardware. But on top of that, there are a number of international standards that you should try to adopt when developing your hardware.

    • Section 3 review activity Quiz

      Reflect and test your knowledge on the information you learnt in this section.