This article proposes improvements to an open framework for evaluating participatory science, including projects framed as citizen science. An original proposed framework, while valuable in its comprehensiveness, used problematic language that makes it unworkable in many international contexts. In countries like Australia where Indigenous data sovereignty matters profoundly, language about ‘target groups’ and ‘easing access’ to knowledge can harmfully perpetuate colonial discourses. The original proposed framework is sufficiently useful that it is worth constructively revising, so critique in this article is aimed towards collaborative progression of an open framework more suitable for international use. As well as replacing ‘target groups’ with partnership approaches, we argue that ‘easing access’ to knowledge for exploitation is a frame perpetuating the colonial doctrine of discovery, proposing recovery as an alternative aligned with several international movements for social justice and sustainability.

本文建议改进用于评估参与式科学的开放框架，包括以公民科学为框架的项目。一个最初提议的框架，虽然在其全面性方面很有价值，但使用了有问题的语言，使其在许多国际环境中不可行。在像澳大利亚这样土著数据主权极为重要的国家，关于“目标群体”和“放宽”获取知识的语言可能会有害地延续殖民话语。最初提出的框架非常有用，值得进行建设性的修改，因此本文中的评论旨在协作推进更适合国际使用的开放框架。除了用伙伴关系方法取代“目标群体”，