# Classification Scheme for CBPP in Science (notes on creating the scheme) ## Open Participation (Initial participation, starting collaboration) People can participate without the need of a permission - Scale: as a participant --> in all phases - Sometimes in science not applicable --> sensitive topics? - People can still be banned - **References:** - Permissionlessness (P2P Foundation Characteristics) People don't need any prior/formal credentials to participate - Scale: as a participant --> in all phases - to assume certain e.g. admin-like roles, a certain amount of prior experience could be demanded (meritocratic). But not for initial participation - **References:** - Anti-Credentialism (P2P Foundation Characteristics) Produsage (maybe move to other category?) - No strict separation between production & consumption - cases in academia: - contributions of volunteers can disappear into a closed academic system (--> it's not really produsage). But if the results are openly availabe, it can still be useful for others - **References:** - Produsage (P2P Foundation Characteristics) ## All material/traces open/Transparency is the default state - All additions can be seen and verified and are sourced - **References:** - Holoptism (P2P Foundation Characteristics) - Results/Data accessible - scale: FAIR, open access, ...? - what about publications that are created based on these projects? - Methods/Procedures open - same as first point? - Conviction of Anti-Rivalry (cannot really be ticked as a characteristic? Rather a conviction that enables the other characteristics of the platform?) - **References:** - Anti-Rivalry (P2P Foundation Characteristics) - Forking - For Benefit (maybe in different category) ## Building on existing work and quality control - Continuous improvement (social process possible) - Aggregation/voting mechanism for quality control/Pooling and verifying cumulative results - Rigorous guidelines ## Education/Enabling new members/Community management - Mentoring relationships/Expert-amateur interaction - Rigorous guidelines - Vetting newcomers (?) ## Governance - Judge/Rank people only on the particular aspects of their being that is involved in the execution of the task (in line with meritocratic nature?) - **References:** - Equipotentiality(P2P Foundation Characteristics) - in pure-play Peer Production, there are no roles and jobs to be performed, only specific tasks to be carried out, and they are self-allocated through Stigmergy - Scale?: self-allocation of tasks through stigmergy, roles like project-leaders, community-managers...? - **References:** - Distribution of tasks (P2P Foundation Characteristics) - Decisions made by those at the most localized level of production (subsidarity) - maybe in science sometimes not possible because of ethics approvals etc.? - resolving conflicts through ongoing mediated dialogue - **References:** - Negotiated coordination (P2P Foundation Characteristics) ## Nature of tasks - Stigmergy - Granularity - Modularity