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DOI: 10.9776/14054
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摘要: Reliance on volunteer participation for citizen science has become extremely popular. Cutting across disciplines, locations, and practices, hundreds of thousands volunteers throughout the world are helping scientists accomplish tasks they could not otherwise perform. Although existing projects have demonstrated value involving in data collection, relatively few been successful maintaining volunteers’ continued involvement over long periods time. Therefore, it is important to understand temporal nature motivations their effect so that effective partnerships between can be established. This paper presents case studies longitudinal practices three countries—the United States, India, Costa Rica. The findings reveal a process participation, which initial stems most cases from self-directed motivations, such as personal interest. In contrast, long-term more complex includes both collaborative motivations.