Library, Heart of the City 2023: Citizen science
The sixth international symposium of the LCL – Library, Heart of the City 2023 will be dedicated to citizen science (known in Slovenian as “občanska znanost”), an international movement within which thousands of volunteers in many states are included in common projects by collecting, commenting and analysing scientific data.
Citizen researches are becoming ever more important exactly because they include many people in collecting the data on the scale that cannot be reached by individual researchers or institutions (the concept of crowdsourcing). Citizen science also encourages the raising of levels of scientific literacy in the broader community, which is essential for the understanding and promotion of science.
The abstracts of symposium’s contributions will be published in the proceedings.
Symposium’s programme
| 8.45–9.00 | Registration of participants |
| Moderator Rok Dežman | |
| 9.00–9.40 | Initial greetings
Teja Zorko, MSc., Ljubljana City Library, managing director |
| Mateja Demšič, MSc., Ljubljana City Municipality, Head of the Department of Culture | |
| 9.15–9.30 | Tit Neubauer, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Science Directorate |
| 9.30–9.40 | Marjan Gujtman, Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage Directorate |
| 9.40–11.00 | Citizen science and open science |
| 9.40–10.10 | Miro Pušnik, MSc., Central Technical Library of the University of Ljubljana |
| 10.10–10.30 | Alisa Martek, Msc. and Dolores Mumelaš, National and University library, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 10.30–10.50 | Tiberius Ignat, PhD, Scientific Knowledge Services, Switzerland |
| 10.50–11.00 | Discussion |
| 11.00–11.10 | Break |
| 11.10–12.00 | Citizen science: Foreign practices |
| 11.10–11.25 | Andreas Hedberg, PhD, Uppsala University, National Library, Sweden |
| 11.25–11.40 | Daniel Dörler, PhD, Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria |
| 11.40–11.55 | Cristina Caetano and Catarina Santos, Comunidade Intermunicipal das Beiras e Serra da Estrela (CIMBSE), Portugal |
| 11.55–12.00 | Discussion |
| 12.00–13.00 | Lunch break |
| 13.00–14.30 | Citizen science and open science in practice |
| 13.00–13.15 | Sonja Bezjak, PhD, Faculty of social sciences, University of Ljubljana |
| 13.15–13.30 | Davor Kontić, PhD, The Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| 13.30–13.45 | Tilen Basle, DOPPS-Birdlife Slovenia |
| 13.45–14.00 | Barbara Pipan, PhD, The Agricultural Institute of Slovenia |
| 14.00–14.15 | Polonca Kavčič, France Bevk Public Library Nova Gorica |
| 14.15–14.30 | Nina Svetelj, Kranj City Library |
| 14.30–15.00 | Round table and conclusion (moderators: Miro Pušnik, MSc., and Aleš Klemen, MSc.) |
Titles of the Contributions will be published subsequently.
Registration fee: 40 € (participation in the Hall); 25 € (virtual participation)
Location: hybrid (Oton Župančič Library, Hall, 3rd floor, and over Zoom)
Registration at ucni.center@mklj.si until 17th May 2023
