MARCSI: Inventory of Marine Citizen Science Initiatives (Global)
Global inventory of marine citizen science initiatives, documenting past and present projects worldwide and assessing the FAIR compliance of the data they produce.
- Size
- 1.4 MB
- Format
- CSV, JSON
- License
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
- Access
- Open Access
- Source
- Zenodo (record 14260016)
License note: ShareAlike: derivative notebooks CC-BY-SA-4.0
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Challenge
How FAIR is the data produced by marine citizen-science projects worldwide, and which themes, regions and eras dominate the field? Is being 'open' the same as being reusable?
- Where to start
- Load MARCSI database_final.csv with sep=';' and encoding='latin-1' (the delimiter and encoding are declared in the companion MARCSI database_final_csvw.json), strip the quote chars from the column names and trim whitespace from text cells. Profile the inventory with value_counts on 'Scientific topic (1)', 'Geographical scale', 'Status' and 'Geographic location - country/countries', then examine 'Open Access' alongside the four FAIR flags 'Findable', 'Accessible', 'Interoperable' and 'Reusable' (Yes/No, only scored for projects whose data is at least partly available).
- What to share
- A profile of marine CS initiatives (topic mix, top countries, founding-year trend parsed from the free-text 'Start date') plus a chart of FAIR compliance and a short read on the gap between data being Accessible versus truly Findable/Interoperable/Reusable. (Derivative notebooks: CC-BY-SA-4.0.)
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