Innovations in technology and social media have now made it possible for citizen scientists (volunteer enthusiasts) to participate in expanding the scope and reach of modern research through crowdsourcing endeavors. Leave your mark on the advancement of science by participating in any one of these emerging projects.
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All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
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Users are generating that reality every day at The New York Public Library through two landmark crowdsourcing endeavors, What’s on the Menu? and Map Rectifier. The former enlists the public in the transcription of historical menus, and the latter allows users to “rectify” historical maps by overlayi…
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Collecting geomagnetic field data through crowd-sourcing
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Scientists at the National Geophysical Data Centre, Boulder, U.S., which is an affiliate of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, have come up with a novel way to crowd-source geomagnetic data for
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At a recent internal hacking event here, NYPL Labs developer Paul Beaudoin recruited me into an interesting project: transforming one of the library's 20,000 digitized historical maps into the three-dimensional world of the building game Minecraft.
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Crowdsourcing used in Genghis Khan tomb search
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Researchers from the University of California San Diego have written 'Crowdsourcing the Unknown: The Satellite Search for Genghis Khan,' published last month on PLOS ONE, the peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. Briefly, they charged an online crowd of volunteer participants with the chal…
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E. Howard Clock Orders Ledger Volume 91,554 ContributionsCan you help us review these ledgers which detail the sales of E. Howard Clock Company's timepieces?
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MicroPasts Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Archaeological Research
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MicroPasts, a platform developed by University College London (UCL) and the British Museum, is bringing together academic researchers and laymen interested in archaeology and history to help create high-quality data and attempt to uncover secrets of the p
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Crowdsourcing with mobile apps brings 'big data' to psychological research
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A fast-paced game app where players pretend they are baggage screening officers operating airport X-ray scanners has provided researchers with billions of pieces of data in record time, according to an article published by the American Psychological Association.
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Prof. mixes business with science
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A Florida State Professor mixes business methods with scientific research.
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IBM Crowdsourcing Computing Power to Help Ebola Research
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IBM's Softlayer cloud technology, World Community Grid is providing an aide in computing power to scientists researching cures to Ebola.
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Scientists turn to crowdsourcing for Ebola cure; link between sleep and cancer: health news
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Researchers hope to harness unused computer power to find a drug against Ebola and scientists at Virginia Tech identify a protein responsible for regulating the body's sleep cycle. The protein plays a role in cell division.
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Feds developing plan for crowdsourcing, citizen science
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Open Innovation Toolkit will guide agencies on leveraging citizen involvement.
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UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs
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Phys.org Science News Wire : UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Phys.org staff.
Crowdsourcing Connects World of Work With World of Knowledge | SYS-CON MEDIA
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Crowdsourcing project predicts progression of neurodegenerative disease
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A $50,000 award spurs innovation in the quest to better treat ALS patients
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Crowdsourcing funds long-term seabird study
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Zoology professor Tim Birkhead reaches crowdfunded target to maintain his long-term study of guillemots on Skomer
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Crowdsourcing methods to fight Psa
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Crowdsourcing has been used to raise money for a start-up business or for a charity, and the concept is now being trialled in the interests of science to tackle kiwifruit disease Psa.
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GB Sciences and NRC Research Institute Apply Crowdsourcing and Big Data Analytics to the...
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GrowBLOX Sciences, Inc., "GB Sciences" (OTCQB:GBLX), a company that merges state-of-the-art technologies in plant biology, cultivation technology and post-production processes in order to optimize safe and consistent medicinal cannabis, and NRC Research I…
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Crowdsourced research might be a democratic way to engage the public in scientific issues and provide researchers with much needed resources.
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UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs
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Phys.org Science News Wire : UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Phys.org staff.
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Apple is now crowdsourcing business listings to help make Maps better
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For years you've been able to report inaccurate or otherwise lacking information from Apple Maps listings. The company has also employed what's known as "ground truth" personnel, people whose job...
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Crowdsourcing To Solve Microbe Mysteries
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The participation of citizen scientists could help complete a metagenomics project in months instead of the 40,000 years required for a single PC.
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Tesla —the other one —nets a big crowdfunding win
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The last remaining lab of "mad scientist" Nikola Tesla will open it doors to the public this summer after a fundraising campaign saved the site.
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Crowdsourcing research for diseases
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There are more than 10,000 diseases on the planet, asthma to zygomycosis. Geoffrey Siwo wants to cure all of them. And the 35-year-old computational biologist believes he can.
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NASA Launches New Citizen Science Site ‘Solve’
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NASA, the US aeronautics and space agency, announced last week the launch of ‘Solve,’ a dedicated destination for its open innovation challenges. To help promote the launch of the platform, NASA kicked off a ‘Mars Balance Mass Challenge,’ which will run u
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Smarter video games, thanks to crowdsourcing
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Brian J. Matis/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Friday, September 26, 2014 - 2:00pm Smarter video games, thanks to crowdsourcing Despite the stereotypes, any serious gamer knows it’s way more fun to play with real people than against the computer. Video game artificial intelligence, or AI, just isn’t very g…
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Feature Crowdsourcing the Collection of Oceanographic Data Published on September 16, 2014 | by Editor Tweet With cutbacks in research dollars around the world, a group of international biologists believes it’s time for some DIY (Do It Yourself) science. The team is developing simple observations an…
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Average Joe as Oceanographer? Crowdsourcing Goes to Sea (With Caveats) - NBC News
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The promise is awesome: thousands of sailors voluntarily collecting valuable ocean data as they cross the seas — work that would cost hundreds of millions of...
Way to go DiverLaura and all others who have participated in the SeaStar Wasting Disease tracking project(s).
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Our voices and efforts were heard... Press release for proposed Marine Disease Emergency Act
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Citizen science invites sabotage
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Scientists and researchers are increasingly looking to volunteers to help fund and do the leg-work on big science projects. But a study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface is warning such projects attract sabotage and mightn't be worth the trouble.
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Crowdsourcing and oceanography, a mix made out of necessity | Going Green | The Earth Times
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How can science cope with the vast expanses of maritime area and all the problems the oceans have? Employ everybody who’s out there, that’s how. Sailors and lubbers, sinners and saints can all join in to add to the desperately deficient data. We do need to know what and why, how and why the denizens…
This is why the better crowdsourced projects have balanced QA steps in place. Like collecting 5 transcriptions from different people, and only accepting the popular submissions, in order to weed out mistakes and misinformation.
Research finds crowdsourcing is vulnerable to malicious behaviour | Electronics and Computer...
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Related Links:• Dr Victor NaroditskiyNew research has found that malicious behaviour is the norm in crowdsourcing competitions — even when it is in everyone’s interest to cooperate.Crowdsourcing provides the ability to accomplish information-gathering tasks that require the involvement of a large nu…
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Crowdsourcing has started to affect the course of research, for better or worse
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Crowdsourcing The Sounds Of Earth - Science News - redOrbit
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In conjunction with Earth Day celebrations on Tuesday – Bryan Pijanowski, an ecology professor at Purdue University, encouraged smartphone owners around the world to download and use an app he developed to record the sounds around them.
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Crowdsourcing Conservation: Microsoft Releases Free Tool for Tracking Animals
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The free software could provide scientific insights that help threatened species.
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Online Video Game Plugs Players Into Real Biochemistry Lab
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37,000 volunteers co-author paper on RNA folding
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What Motivates the Crowd to Participate?
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Every day, people face thousands of choices on how to spend their time on the web. Given the huge amount of options that people have to allocate their time, why do a growing number of people participate on crowdsourcing sites?
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Citizen Science: Scientists find cheap way to collect data - You - Features
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In Israel, observations by bird watchers, butterfly buffs and seafarers have helped protect biodiversity. Now a new program is calling for laypersons to identify hitherto unknown insects.
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Going Up: LiftPort Gets Set for Crowdfunded Space Elevator Test - NBC News
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For decades, visionaries have dreamed about building space elevators that could carry payloads into orbit for a fraction of what it costs for a rocket launch...
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The Golden Record 2.0 Will Crowdsource A Selfie of Human Culture | Science | Smithsonian
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Inspired by a similar effort in the 1970s, the project wants your help in creating a portrait of humanity to send out of the solar system
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Why Crowdsourcing Matters in a Disaster
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The Office of Naval Research sponsored a demonstration showing how crowdsourcing could speed response times to critical locations, save lives, and limit damage caused by natural disaster. <a href="http://science.dodlive.mil/2014/08/24/why-crowdsourcing-matters-in-a-disaster/"><br/>Read More</a>
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Crowdsourcing the retina’s motion detection mechanism | Mo Costandi
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A citizen science project to map neural connections in the retina may have answered the long-standing question of how our eyes detect motion.
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A New Way to See Earthquakes: Peoples’ Fitness Trackers | Smart News | Smithsonian
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Yesterday's Napa earthquake woke people up
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Five Ways To Get Involved in Science Without Going Back to School
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Amateur naturalists have played a significant role in environmental research for over a century. The internet makes it possible to organize on a whole new
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Is crowdsourcing the future of scientific research?
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Casey O'Donnell, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation of $156,000 to examine how collaborative online games are being used to solve problems in the world of biochemistry and molecular p…
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Kickstarter to fund a makeover on the learning killjoy that is the drab labcoat experience.
Our cool lab gear, storybooks, and science activities for young girls will inspire the next generation of innovators.
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New DC Startup Wants to Crowdsource the Future of Science
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Science is awesome, just ask the more than 13.6 million fans of the "I fucking love science" Facebook page. It's exactly those kinds of science enthusiasts that the new D.C. startup Endeavorist...
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Crowdsourcing the phase problem | (e) Science News
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Compared with humans, computers have the capacity to solve problems at much greater speed. There are many problems, however, where computational speed alone is insufficient to find a correct or optimal solution, for example because the parameter "space" cannot be fully searched in a practical time.…
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SciCast Calls for Science, Technology Experts to Make Predictions
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SciCast takes crowdsourced predictions one step further, uniquely placing emphasis on relationships among questions and outcomes. "On SciCast, forecasts can influence each other," explains Charles Twardy, research assistant professor, George Mason University and a SciCast Principal Investigator. "Fo…
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Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers | Science Codex
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University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks. Instead of learning from just one human, robots could one day query the larger online community, asking
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Debut for science’s shot at informing global development
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Crowdsourcing could help to identify emerging development issues and ensure the global development agenda is more representative of views from the global South, says a prototype of a planned one-stop-shop report compiling science advice for development.
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As nutty as it may seem to the uninitiated, the notion of looking for alien artifacts on our own Moon may finally be gaining mainstream scientific traction. There are good reasons to seriously consider the possibility that at some point in the Earth-Moon system’s storied 4.5 billion year-old history…
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Crowdsourcing science goes boom
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World-renowned astrophysicist Chris Lintott believes the next scientific discovery could come from you.
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Appirio's Crowdsourcing Community Creates Breakthrough Solutions to Support the Advancement of...
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 7, 2014) - Appirio today announced that, in partnership with the Harvard NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), the company and its [topcoder]™ community are helping NASA and other government agencies solve some of their most complex real-world challenges. Over the la…
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Crowdsourcing the Olinguito - Smithsonian Science
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One year ago, the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) stepped out of the forest shadows into the spotlight and onto the pages of science—the first carnivore species …
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Volunteers help British Museum in crowdsourcing archeology project
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Thousands log on to transcribe handwritten catalogue dating back to 18th century and put 30,000 ancient objects online
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The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections) | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
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A massive digitization and transcription project calls for volunteers at the Smithsonian
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Scientists Want You to Help Crowdsource Night Lights - NBC News
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NASA has amassed more than 1.3 million pictures of Earth as seen from the International Space Station, and about a third of them were taken at night. The spa...
In an attempt to help scientist better understand the extinct of the sea star wasting disease, Laura James' efforts to involve citizen scientist in collecting data is highlighted in this CCTV America news story.
Millions of sea stars are dying with no explanation
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Imagine a population of millions of people at any given spot in the world suddenly dying with no explanation. The marine world equivalent of this is actually happening right now with the mass death...
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NASA's Lost Satellite Just Made Its First Contact With Earth in 17 Years
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It's official: ISEE-3, the 36-year-old satellite that NASA left for dead over a decade ago, is back in touch with humankind. This afternoon, a group of citizen scientists who raised almost $160,000 to fund the process of taking control of ISEE-3 announced that two-way contact has been established wi…
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Evolved Science: Crowds Can Catalog Bugs Faster
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Thousands of non-scientists sitting at their home computers may now be as useful as a single Einstein thanks to online crowdsourcing. What once took years, now takes days.
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University scientists, entrepreneur turn to crowd-sourcing to pay for beef research
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DENVER - An entrepreneur with a "fishy" idea for making beef healthier is turning to crowd-sourcing to pay for research at Colorado State University.
Help Track the migration of Birds and Butterflies this season.
Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change
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Journey North is a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Journey North is an online science education project in which students track spring's journey across the northern hemisphere.
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Help Transcribe Diaries From World War I
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WWI diaries are some of the most requested documents in the National Archives, but until now they've only been available on paper
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U.S. company puts crowdsourcing to work in search for Malaysian jet
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DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado-based company has put "crowdsourcing" to work in the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet, enlisting Internet users to comb through satellite images of more than 1,200 square miles (3,200 square km) of open seas for any signs of wreckage, the company said on Tuesd...
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Crowdfund shark research and a cyberpunk film by Larry Hama
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The man who built up GI Joe's mythology in comics has a new story to tell about Homeland Security's Cyber Crime Division. You can also help fund documentaries about women in comics and Batman collaborator Bill Finger—or send your dollars toward research into the feeding habits of sharks.
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Crowdsourced sea lion photos to help scientists study whisker spot patterns
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Western Australian researchers are calling for photos of sea lion snouts to aid new method of identifying the endangered species
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Citizen Scientists search for #SickStarfish
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As a mysterious wasting diseases continues to ravage the populations of sea stars up and down the West Coast of North America, concerned divers Laura James and Lamont Granquist have organized their own crowdso…
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As federal research grants dry up, more and more institutions are turning to crowdfunding for their projects. This article discusses the pitfalls and opportunities in either option. It also highlights some of the successful…
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Antitumor Compound found in Unusual Fungus | Crowdsourcing for Science
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In this Spectroscopy Now article, David Bradley discusses how a potential antitumor compound was discovered through the efforts of crowdsourcing...
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Crowdsourcing the Garden | Crowdsourcing for Science
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This past Fall, scientist started cataloging crowd input to track when various plants start to change colors in fall. A simple smart phone app allowed volunteers to upload images from their gardens to the USA National Phenology Network. The…
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Australians fund their own Climate Commission | Crowdsourcing for Science
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Another example of citizen-science activism. Following outrage at their prime ministers action to dismantle the country’s Climate Commission, Australians reacted by raising AUD $800,000 in less than 3 days…
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Crowdsourced Disaster Response
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In this Scientific American article, Declan Butler discusses how volunteers helped coordinate Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts by analyzing satellite images.
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Antitumor Compound found in Unusual Fungus | Crowdsourcing for Science
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In this Spectroscopy Now article, David Bradley discusses how a potential antitumor compound was discovered through the efforts of crowdsourcing...
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Crowdsourcing for ScienceAnd another article: www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/12/crowdsourcing-delivers-promising-anticancer-fungi-compound1 year ago
Crowdsourcing for ScienceHere is another article discussing the same project: bionews-tx.com/news/2013/12/12/crowdsourcing-diybio-research-efforts-reveal-unusual-fungal-metabo...1 year ago
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Find Near-Earth Objects | Crowdsourcing for Science
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NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement is NASA’s first partnership ass…
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Journey North – Migration Mapping | Crowdsourcing for Science
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Anneberger Learner’s Journey North is a crowdsourcing endeavor that encourages citizens to report sightings of migrating birds. This data contributes to a global stud of wildlife migrations and seasonal change. Sighting…
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danceroom Spectroscopy | Crowdsourcing for Science
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David Glowacki has taken research-grade molecular simulations and imported them to an Xbox Kinect 3D system where video game players can interact with the molecular world in order to better understand theoretical chemistry.http://…
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Open-Phylo’s DNA Puzzles | Crowdsourcing for Science
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The Open-Phylo project represents a great leap forward in crowdsourcing technology for scientists. The web-interface allows researchers to upload Multiple Sequence Alignments, which are then converted into DNA puzzles which harn…
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The iSeahorse App | Crowdsourcing for Science
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A new smartphone app, called iSeahorse, allows citizen scientists to log sightings of seahorses in the wild. Due to their small size and camouflage, seahorses can be very hard to study. Scientists hope this new information will help t…
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Galaxy Zoo 2 update | Crowdsourcing for Science
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As an update to the ongoing efforts at Zooniverse’s Galaxy Zoo 2 project, 300,000 nearby galaxies have now been cataloged by 83,000 volunteers (from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey).In this crowdsourcing project, volunteer’s loaned their…
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Early Crowdsourcing Projects, 1857
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Early Crowdsourcing Projects, 1857April 22, 2013Crowd EffortsStephanie ZimmermanOne of the earliest (and well-documented) cases of crowdsourcing began in 1857 when a public request for definitionas was sent out to English readers. 70-million submissions later the Oxford English Dictionary was creat...
The Open Science movement, while not exactly crowdsourcing the masses, is still a very interseting development. Check out Sally James' article about the efforst in this by Seattle's own Stephen friend.
$1.7 million to open science’s Friend
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Two honors this summer have burnished the reputation of Seattle scientist Stephen Friend for his pursuit of what is called open science. On top of White House honors in June, he received a grant ...
Somehow, I think this lecture may provide some useful insights into why crowdsourcing the analysis of certain tasks is still more efficient for people to do than computers.
UW Science Now: Makrand Sinha: P vs. NP: The Limits of Computers AND Jingda Wu: NCQD: Print Your...
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In this double feature, UW researcher Makrand Sinha explores the P vs. NP question, one of computer science’s biggest unsolved mysteries, which asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer also can be quickly solved by a computer, and Jingda Wu explains how NCQD co...
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How to Prepare an Effective Crowdfunding Pitch
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Crowdfunding — whether through donated contributions or equity investments — is coming of age as a game changer for startups. Here’s how to create a persuasive pitch.
This makes me very happy to see NASA advertisements (crowdfunded) before scifi movies. Yes.
Star Trek Crowdfunding Effort Funds Pre-STID Space Program Trailer
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Star Trek News - A trailer designed to support the U.S. space program will run before Star Trek Into Darkness, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. StarTrek.com has the details!
Updates on how the climate data from the Old Weather crowdsourcing effort are being put to use:
Volunteers use historic U.S. ship logbooks to uncover Arctic climate data | UW Today
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March 28, 2013Volunteers use historic U.S. ship logbooks to uncover Arctic climate data By Hannah Hickey News and InformationPosted under: Environment, Research, ScienceCitizen-scientists around the world are poring through digital versions of 19th century logbooks of mariners who sailed from Pacifi...
Here is a different sort of study involving social networking cycles and anthropology.
Researchers are starting to apply formal social network analysis to archeological artifacts which is giving them a greater appreciation of the history of long distance cultural transmission and a deeper understanding of how social networks go through cycles of growth and collapse.
I would suspect that these historical patterns will work themselves out in our modern social networks as well - where technological development, mergers, and customer abandonment can create rapid sea changes. However, instead of taking centuries to finish a cycle, matured growth and fragmentation of networks can now take place in a matter of months.
Thanks for the tip @CatherineQ
Artifacts Shed Light on Social Networks of the Past | UANews
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The advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have made us all more connected, but long-distance social networks existed long before the Internet. A new study led by a UA anthropologist provides new information on social networks in the pre-Hispanic Southwest in A.D. 1200-1450. Amo...
Here is another example of a crowdsourced project (by HookTheory) where the 'crowd' helped catalog the harmonic patterns in the chords of 1300 popular songs. With this information they were able to build an informative tool to better understand and teach music theory.
I analyzed the chords to 1300 songs for patterns. This is what I found. (Part 3) Interactive Discove
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I analyzed the chords to 1300 songs for patterns. This is what I found. (Part 3) Interactive DiscoveryPosted on February 13, 2013 by Dave CarltonFor many people, listening to music elicits such an emotional response that the idea of dredging it for statistics and structure can seem odd or even misgu...
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Crowdsourcing for ScienceThanks for the tip, Andrew T.2 years ago
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Fun and games 'can save the planet'
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A project will assess whether playing games can help increase people's interest in environmental issues, such as climate change.
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Tuesdays Lecture on Crowdsourcing for Science at the Seattle Queen Anne Science Cafe is now available for streaming through KCTS.
Crowdsourcing for Science: Using Social Media to do Real Research | KCTS 9 - Public Television
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The TED Open Translation Project allows volunteers to help transcribe TED talks into multiple languages.
While not as robust as many crowdsourcing projects, this is still an excellent opportunity (especially for cultures where English is not the primary language) to volunteer on a project that gets the word about science.
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| TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to share ideas worth spreading. TED.com shares those ideas with the world, for free, in videos that have been called "the best thing on the web, ever."
Crowdsourcing for ScienceThe Open Translation platform they are using is called Amara: www.amara.org/en/2 years ago
Got 15 seconds to spare? NEPTUNE is looking for a few hundred thousand volunteers to help analyze deep-sea videos—15 seconds at a time.
Crowdsourcing | Digital Fishers
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Developed by NEPTUNE Canada with the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) and funded by CANARIE. Co-investigator Dr. Rod Dobell leads the involvement of CfGS with additional support from eBriefings.ca.
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Crowdsourcing for ScienceThanks for the tip, John.2 years ago
Another amazing project coming out of Europe.
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tranScriptorium aims to develop innovative, efficient and cost-effective solutions for the indexing, search and full transcription of historical handwritten document images, using modern, holistic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology.
During Tuesday's lecture, many people were interested in finding out more about the screen savers that utilitized the down time on your computer to help calculate information for various science projects.
BOINC is the platform that was developed at UC Berkely and is the powerhouse behind projects like SETI@home.
boinc.berkeley.edu
BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources
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Great example of a sucessful Crowdfunding project for science.
uBiome -- Sequencing Your Microbiome
www.indiegogo.com
World's FIRST citizen science project to sequence the human microbiome. Available INTERNATIONALLY in 196 countries. Learn about your health & change the world!
Micro-patronage could let researchers step around funding obstacles. - by Renee DiResta
Crowdfunding science - O'Reilly Radar
radar.oreilly.com
In our first science-as-a-service post, I highlighted some of the participants in the ecosystem. In this one, I want to share the changing face of funding. Throughout the 20th...
Crowdsourcing for Science shared a link.
Crowdsourcing killer outbreaks (w/video)
www.nanowerk.com
A crowdsourcing effort is underway to tackle the ash dieback disease declared endemic in the UK that threatens the 129,000 hectares of woodland that Britain's 80M ash trees cover.
Here is the begining of the blog space that I put together as a resource for various communities and projects where people with even the faintest interest can troll and participate in investigating our collective futures.
Crowdsourcing for Science | The Citizen Science Movement Online
crowdsourcingforscience.org
ZooniverseLeave a replyThe Zooniverse is home to the internet’s largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you’re new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in – the same account will get yo...
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