Survey Study about Motivation for Participants in Citizen Science Projects

The survey study about motivation for participants in Citizen Science projects was designed within the ongoing H2020 project named ACTION (pArticipatory sCience Toolkit agaInst pollutiON). Volunteers participate to citizen science initiatives for multiple reasons: personal enjoyment, desire for improvement or achievement, establishment of personal relationships, care for the environment, etc.
Studying motivation and investigating the factors influencing people participation to citizen science projects is an essential aspect in the analysis of citizen science communities. Understanding the reasons that foster people to engage can support the successful design and implementation of effective participant involvement tasks, as well as pave the way for long-term engagement.
The goal of the study is to analyse the motivation to participate of a specific citizen science community and the structure of the survey proposed shuold be customised considering the topic of the activities.

This research object describes the studies performed within the ACTION project to investigate motivations of different citizen science communities: the TESS Network (https://tess.stars4all.eu/); the 6 ACTION pilots (https://actionproject.eu/citizen-science-pilots) Mapping Mobility, Open Soil Atlas, Water Sentinels, Restart Data Workbench, Wow Nature, Walk Up Aniene.
The surveys were designed and administered through Coney (https://coney.cefriel.com) and made available as linked data exploiting the Survey Ontology (https://w3id.org/survey-ontology).

The research object adopts the RO-Crate specification. Files made available within the research object are:

*-procedure.ttl contains the RDF representation of the template structure of the conversational survey (questions, answers, etc.) using the Survey Ontology

*-mean-var-motivating-questions.csv contains the computed mean and average for each question considered (observable variables) comparing all the surveys performed

*-mean-var-motivating-factor.csv contains the computed mean and average for each motivation factor considered (latent variables) comparing all the surveys performed

*-correlation-factors-global-motivation.csv contains the correlation analysis between each motivation factor and the global motivation comparing all the surveys performed

The Research Object also references all the RO-Crates describing the different survey motivation studies in details.

本项针对公民科学（Citizen Science）项目参与者参与动机的调研研究，依托于正在推进中的名为ACTION（对抗污染的参与式科学工具包，pArticipatory sCience Toolkit agaInst pollutiON）的欧盟地平线2020（H2020）计划项目开展。志愿者参与公民科学项目的动机多种多样：包括个人乐趣、追求自我提升或成就、建立人际关系、关注环境等。

研究公民科学参与者的参与动机及其影响因素，是公民科学社群分析的核心环节。明晰驱动人们参与的动因，可为有效设计并落地参与者参与任务提供支撑，同时也可为长期参与路径的铺设奠定基础。

本调研的目标为分析特定公民科学社群的参与动机，且所提出的调研问卷结构需结合对应活动主题进行定制。

本研究对象阐述了在ACTION项目中开展的、针对不同公民科学社群参与动机的相关研究：包括TESS网络（https://tess.stars4all.eu/）以及6个ACTION试点项目（https://actionproject.eu/citizen-science-pilots），具体为Mapping Mobility、Open Soil Atlas、Water Sentinels、Restart Data Workbench、Wow Nature、Walk Up Aniene。

本次调研问卷通过Coney（https://coney.cefriel.com）设计并发放，同时依托调研本体（Survey Ontology，https://w3id.org/survey-ontology）以关联数据形式发布。

本研究对象采用RO-Crate规范进行组织。本研究对象中公开的文件包括：

*-procedure.ttl：采用调研本体（Survey Ontology）构建的对话式调研问卷（含问题、答案等）模板结构的RDF表示文件。
*-mean-var-motivating-questions.csv：针对所有已开展的调研，计算各观测变量（调研问题）的均值与平均值的结果文件。
*-mean-var-motivating-factor.csv：针对所有已开展的调研，计算各潜变量（动机因子）的均值与平均值的结果文件。
*-correlation-factors-global-motivation.csv：针对所有已开展的调研，开展各动机因子与整体动机间相关性分析的结果文件。

本研究对象同时引用了所有详细描述各调研动机研究的RO-Crate包。