Einleitung In the field of natural research and nature protection, the experience has shown that it makes sense to extend this definition: due to modern and internet based projects of species registration the term changes to Modern Citizen Science [Röller 2015]. Using the example of the „ArtenFinder Rhineland-Palatinate“, the characters, the meaning for the sciences as well as the additional be...

This research is under the title (Construction Grammar in Kurdish language), which turn an attempt to present grammar and from perspective of constructive Cognitive Linguistics. The construction as a term language base was not recent, it discussed other schools specific way schools, but subject with perceived background includes purposes, how build linguistic by being template accessible its sp...

We explore the nature of technologies to support citizen science, a method of inquiry that leverages the power of crowds to collect and analyze scientific data. We evaluate these technologies as system assemblages, collections of interrelated functionalities that support specific activities in pursuit of overall project goals. The notion of system assemblages helps us to explain how different c...

Citizen science has become more popular in recent years, quickly taking on a variety of potentially conflicting characteristics: a way to collect massive data sets at relatively low cost, a way to break science out of the ivory tower and better engage the public, an approach to educate lay people in scientific methods. But the extent of current citizen science practice-the types of actors and s...

This position paper is concerned with the research and design of infocommunication technologies for citizen engagement and learning in smart ecosystems. The work assumes a human-centric citizen-driven smart city design approach and also proposes a R&D iterative framework model based on SOA work that goes from citizen inquiry to a front-end dashboard paradigm proposal. A research framework is di...

The accelerated news cycle and constantly emerging news-worthy events have led to ‘citizen journalism’ where people who are non-journalists collect, analyze and disseminate news pieces. This paper seeks to leverage tags drawn from iReport, an active citizen journalism Website to detect major news events. The goal is to examine the coverage and efficacy of news detected in iReport vis-à-vis thos...

Many studies have been conducted on the Kurds and their movements. Most authors have considered historical dimensions or applied limited theoretical variables, but have not been able to identify the variables to identify the key reasons behind the rise and fall of Kurdish movements in an explanatory theoretical model. Consequently, there is neither available data about their rise, continuity, a...