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pattern design deeply in accordance with the situation of scientific research, thus failing to
solve the path dependence and situational response of crowdsourcing in the scientific research
context. Secondly, the launch and implementation of citizen science projects require the support
of corresponding platforms and institutions. At present, China’s investment in the construction
of citizen science platforms is far from enough, and the existing citizen science platforms are
not highly utilized and have relatively single function. From the perspective of institutions, most
of the citizen science projects in China are undertaken by research institutions spontaneously,
whose efforts however principally concentrate upon scientific research, and cannot be effectively
dispersed to the management and coordination of public scientific projects, thus it is proved
powerless to run a number of citizen science projects, and durability and effectiveness both offer
a depressing picture. Thirdly, the planning, management and evaluation of citizen science projects
should be oriented to knowledge innovation and service innovation, and pattern design and project
management should be conducted from a strategic perspective. Instead of being merely limited to
simple data collection, citizen science projects should effectively combine and integrate scientific
innovation and scientific popularization.
From the disciplinary perspective, the theoretical and practical exploration of citizen science
projects have also brought a string of research opportunities to the Library and Information Science
field. Library and Information agencies are also likely to create a promising future in the planning,
development and promotion of citizen science projects. In particular, in the matter of research on
information resource management, issues related to digital humanities citizen science projects are
worth in-depth exploration by scholars and practitioners in the realm of Library and Information
Science where data science and design thinking can complement each other and develop together.
W. Liu et al. (2016) demonstrate in the article National Data Infrastructure Construction Oriented
to Humanistic Research that by digitalizing huge collections of resources that are from human
memory and cultural heritageinstitutions such as libraries, museums, archives and so on, traditional
digital libraries can be upgraded to digital humanities research platforms, thus bringing greater
value to the public, society and research institutions. At the end of this paper, the author proposes
four research opportunities from the perspective of the Library and Information Science, which
may yield some implication for the future research.
1) Make full use of special collections of resources to conduct studies on digital humanities
citizen science projects. Due to their particularity, many special resources are difficult to collect,
integrate, develop and apply intelligently through computers and to solve problems like manuscript
transcribing of ancient books, resource perfection, context filling, resource correction, and
classification irregularities, a large number of volunteers’ participation are demanded (Carletti,
Giannachi, Price, Giannachi, & Benford, 2013). Schreibman, Siemens and Unsworth (2015) point
out that digital humanities projects should not only digitize documents, but also extend to public
potential education, training function, network community formation, re-digitization and other
aspects.The open innovation and collective wisdom of citizen science projects can effectively help