Citizen Science, Experts, and Expertise.

Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development

UbiqUitoUs sUstainability: Citizen sCienCe & aCtivism Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up community participation. Ubiquitous computing is transforming from being mostly about professional communication and social interaction to a sensor rich personal measurement platform that can empower ind...

Citizen Science for Citizen Access to Law

Over 2014, the Cornell University Legal Information Institute and the Australian National University worked with users of the Cornell LII site in a citizen science project to collect over 43,000 crowdsourced assessments of the readability of legal and other sentences. Readers (“citizen scientists”) on legislative pages of the LII site were asked to rate passages from the United States Code and ...

Expertise Matcher: Integrating Multiple Expertise Indications to Retrieve Experts

The knowledge and expertise of employees is the major asset that knowledgebased organizations hold. In order to make use of this asset, it is necessary to enhance the communication between employees so that they can share knowledge and expertise. Expertise matching – locating experts with the specific expertise is receiving more and more attention since it facilitates people connection to each ...

Experts in Organizations: the Power of Expertise

This paper focuses on the power of expertise in modern societies and examines the nature of expert knowledge in organizations. It approaches expertise as a decisive resource in organizational value creation and treats experts as influential actors in organizational decision-making. The paper is organized as follows. It begins by addressing the power of expertise in today's societies and charact...