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# System prepended metadata

title: Classification Scheme for CBPP in Science

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# 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



