Science Community Engagement Best Practices : a white paper from the observatory best practices/lessons learned series.

Abstract

Community engagement is a central component of many large science initiatives and observatories. For the purposes of this paper, community engagement refers to the engagement of other research scientists, it does not refer to the engagement of the general public or for educational purposes. This paper specifically focuses on community engagement in the context of building a strong scientific user base, supporting new research, and/or synthesizing scientific findings across a set of questions or themes.