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STARDIT Beta Version co-creation process Description: A STARDIT report to describe the co-creation process for the Beta version of STARDIT (version 0.2). The objective of STARDIT is to address current limitations and inconsistencies in sharing data about initiatives. The STARDIT system features standardised data reporting about initiatives, including who has been involved, what tasks they did, and any impacts observed. STARDIT is designed to support a culture of partnership across disciplines and is, wherever possible, aligned and interoperable with existing reporting models and frameworks such as those used in health, environment, manufacturing , publishing, government policy, education, arts and international development (see Table 1). In addition, the STARDIT Preference Mapping (STARDIT-PM) tool provides a standardised way to report information about different stakeholders’ preferences, including preferences for power-sharing and methods of involving people during an initiative. The working Beta Version of STARDIT uses Wikidata (collaboratively edited structured data) to enable definitions to be co-created by contributors anywhere in the world, and therefore works across human languages, with interoperability with other platforms planned for future versions.
STARDIT ID: 0202110130313

Dates

State completed
Start 2019-01-02
End 2021-10-12
Form updated 2024-10-25

Report authors

Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
jack.nunn@scienceforall.world
Main author

Location

Global

URL

http://scienceforall.world/STARDIT/Beta

Other IDs

DOI: doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-934285/v1

{{{id_typ}}}: 10.31219/osf.io/w5xj6

DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/5q47h

DOI: 10.1186/s40900-022-00363-9

Wikidata item: Q113098498

Wikidata URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113098498

Aims

Create a working Beta version of STARDIT

Create a peer-reviewed article to describe STARDIT and the co-creation process

Keywords

data

research

evaluation

impact

STARDIT

open data

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participatory

democracy

evidence

systematic

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Category

research

Inputs

group of individuals

Stage: After Beta version publicly released

Named authors (23) (link)

Task: Contributed to manuscript, checked versions and gave feedback
Method: Participatory action research: STARDIT development is guided by participatory action research (PAR) paradigms, which guides initiatives by aiming to involve all stakeholders in every aspect of the development and evaluation of an initiative1,2. Participatory research is a form of collective, self-reflective enquiry undertaken by people in order to understand their situation from different perspectives3. Development has also been influenced by existing work in health research, including the multidisciplinary area of public health, which incorporates social, environmental and economic research. In a health context, participatory research attempts to reduce health inequalities by supporting people to be involved in addressing health issues that are important to them, data collection, reflection and ultimately in action to improve their own health4. At the core of participatory research is ‘critical reflexivity’. The process asks people involved to reflect on the causes of problems, possible solutions, take any actions required which might improve the current situation, and evaluate the actions2. Rights-based paradigm: The United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration Human Rights states everyone should be able to ‘receive and impart information and ideas’5. The UN also states that democracy, development and respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms are interdependent and mutually reinforcing’6. To uphold human rights and ‘environmental rights’7, and for ‘the maintenance of peace’, people require ‘media freedom’ in order to ‘seek, receive and impart information’6, free of unaccountable censorship. STARDIT has been created in order to help anyone uphold these universal rights, by providing a way to share open access information in a structured way with a transparent process for quality checking. Cultural neutrality: Values, assumptions, ways of thinking and knowing are not shared universally. The participatory process used for developing STARDIT required and will continue to require that it attempts to map cultural variations, in an attempt to avoid unconsciously reinforcing particular (often ‘dominant’)8 values. Transparent acknowledgement of differing values and perspectives is critically important, in particular when mapping if different stakeholders’ values are complimentary or opposing. A participatory process requires mapping all of these perspectives and, where possible, involving people in labelling different perspectives and values. For example, STARDIT has already been used to map the varying perspectives of multiple stakeholders when planning a multi-generational cohort study9. Many problems facing humans are shared by non-human life forms and ecosystems, including rapid climate change, air pollution and sea-level rise. If initiatives are to operate in inclusive, culturally-neutral ways, reconsideration of the language used to describe relationships between humans, non-human life and the environment is essential.10 Environmental and social sciences are challenging and redefining colonial-era concepts of what can be ‘owned’ as property or who ‘owns’ 10,11. As a result, ecosystems such as rivers and non-human animals, are being assigned ‘personhood’12–14. For example, a public consultation by a ‘dominant’ group might ask, ‘who owns the rights to the water in a river system?’8 This question imposes the dominant group’s values on people who may not share the same concept of ‘ownership’. In this way, Western European legal and economic traditions are frequently incompatible with those of some Indigenous peoples’.10,15,16 The participatory process used for developing STARDIT has attempted to be transparent about how different stakeholders have been involved in shaping it in order to improve how the system can be used to map values and provide more culturally neutral guidance for planning and evaluating involvement in initiatives. However, it is acknowledged that it will be a challenging process to ‘de-colonialise’ and ‘de-anthropocise’ language and action17,18, as this may be perceived as a challenge to some people’s cultural attitudes which may not align with the United Nation’s universally enshrined principles of democracy, human rights and environmental rights. In addition, ongoing co-design will be required to ensure STARDIT is as accessible and inclusive as possible.
Compensation: volunteer
Declared interests: Jack Nunn (lead author) who led the co-design process is the volunteer Director for the charity Science for All (http://scienceforall.world/STARDIT). All authors may benefit financially from being involved in this project, as their familiarity with the project may mean individuals and organisations wish to remunerate them for their time and expertise in relation to applying and using the STARDIT tools. Some authors may receive funding to their employing organisations for being a co-author. All authors may benefit reputationally from being involved in this project, although this is a prospective outcome and the opposite may happen (!)
Impact: STARDIT used by a number of organisations

organisation

Science for All (link)

Task: Hosted online discussion and decision making

group of individuals

Members of the public and other contributors (not authors) (150)

Task: Giving informal feedback, commenting and providing feedback
Method: faciliated discussion, presentations, question and answer sessions, facilitated online discussions
Communication: meetings, in person events, webinars, online discussions
Barriers: People were not paid for their time while being involved (except for one developer), discussions and documentation were in English language only
Compensation: volunteer
Impact: Multiple changes were made as a result of involving people, including changing the name and the logo, multiple changes to the article text (Alpha and Beta) and the STARDIT reporting tool.

individual

Jack S Nunn (link)

ID: 0000-0003-0316-3254
Task: Initiator of the STARDIT project, facilitator of the co-design process, lead-author of the STARDIT Beta Version peer-reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer
Declared interests: Jack Nunn is the Director of Science for All (a voluntary unpaid position), a PhD candidate at the University of La Trobe (where he received a scholarship from 2016-2020) and STARDIT reports and the STARDIT Beta version article will feature as elements in Jack’s PhD thesis (in-progress). Jack is a member of the Cochrane Council (a voluntary unpaid position), the Strategy Liaison for the Wiki Journals (a voluntary unpaid position), a member of the Australian Federal Departments of Health's Medical Services Advisory Committee Evaluation Sub-committee (where he is paid for attending meetings and associated work). Jack is on the Editorial Board for the Wiki Journal of Science, the Wiki Journal of Humanities and ‘Research Involvement and Engagement’. A discount of the ‘Article Processing Fee’ is offered to ‘Research Involvement and Engagement’ Editorial Board members, and this was utilised to be able to afford publishing in this journal, as there was no project budget for publication. Science for All occasionally pays Jack Nunn to work on other projects (overseen by the Science for All Steering Committee and reported transparently), as described in the ‘Ways of Working’ document, but has not paid Jack to work on STARDIT.

individual

Compensation: volunteer

individual

Thomas Shafee

ID: 0000-0002-2298-7593
Task: built a working Beta of the STARDIT form, co-author of the STARDIT Beta Version peer-reviewed article
Compensation: paid
Declared interests: Thomas Shafee is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiki Journals (a voluntary unpaid position). In order to be inclusive (and not exploitative), Science for All paid Thomas Shafee to build a working Beta of the STARDIT form (after a public tender and transparent selection process).

individual

Compensation: volunteer

individual

Steven Chang

ID: 0000-0002-3193-7969
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Richard Stephens

ID: 0000-0002-0760-2771
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Jim Elliott

ID: 0000-0002-8890-6012
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Sandy Oliver

ID: 0000-0001-9571-269X
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Denny John

ID: 0000-0002-4486-632X
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Maureen Smith

ID: 0000-0003-4370-000X
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Neil Orr

ID: 0000-0001-9965-0342
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Jennifer Preston

ID: 0000-0003-4800-234X
Task: Co-author of STARDIT Beta Version peer reviewed article
Compensation: volunteer

individual

Josephine Borthwick