Documenting Activities. This section explores the documentation of activities in more detail. In the survey partners were asked about the type of documentation they typically gather. The results show a clear concern about event documentation in terms of practice and materials as well as evidence of their activities during the events and post-event activity (e.g. blog posts). The results show a diverse range of ways of documenting events: ● Collaborative online platforms: ○ Shared online documents ○ Code and blueprints repositories ● Multimedia documentation: ○ Installation instructions ○ Pictures ○ Audio ○ Video ○ Posters ○ Live streaming ● Memory booklet ● Web page ● Blog posts ● Scientific and technical data and information: ○ Notes ○ Maps ○ Spectral data ○ How-to manuals ○ Questions of interest ○ Prototypes/items instructions and manuals ● Pedagogical material: ○ Training curriculum ○ About methodology and production ○ The exhibition itself ● Social networks and tools: ○ Meetup platforms ○ Facebook ○ Twitter ○ Instagram/Flickr/Pinterest ○ YouTube/Vimeo The partners created a distinction between documenting scientific process via data and documenting the activity itself as photos and videos of participants. However, sometimes the same tools and formats were used for both purposes. Often these categories overlapped so that a document would belong to more than one category: Documentation of the preparation/organisation Documentation of the scientific process, results and conclusions Documentation of the public activity (for communication and dissemination purposes) When documenting the activity it might be useful to separate the documentation generated via the organisation process of the event such as shared online documents, budgets and the one about the event itself such as photos, videos and interviews. Our objective in the next phase is to link the type of documentation to its goal and use. Some questions arose from these results: How are the participants going to be acknowledged? How can documentation take into account every participant? How important is a crowdsourced participant contribution compared to the scientist that initiated the research project? How can documentation show that the participant’s effort was worthwhile? We think that Wikipedia is a model to get inspiration from: a collective web to share knowledge where every contribution is logged and authorship acknowledged. In our experience, although we have not previously properly addressed this issue, we t...
