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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How Amazon's crowdsourcing forum, Mechanical Turk, could be destroying academic research
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"Turkers" are people who are essentially making their living by filling out questionnaires all day long, day after, month after month, year after year.
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Foundation uses crowdsourcing to raise funds to acquire Canaan Valley Institute from NOAA
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia - The National Science Foundation is raising money to acquire the Canaan Valley Institute building and operate it as a regional STEM hub.
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OHMS: Enhancing Oral History Online | | Saving StoriesSaving Stories
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The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History created a web-based, system called OHMS to enhance access to oral history online.
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Detecting Potentially Dangerous Asteroids & Comets
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The Planetary Society recognizes the threat that asteroids and comets--known as Near Earth Objects, or NEOs--represent. While an asteroid strike could have devastating effects, the good news is that an asteroid impact is the only natural disaster that is completely preventable. Our most important pr…
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Do you have it in you? Join the Flu Near You project to help track flu activity in the United States.
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Scientists Use Thousands of Crowdsourced Images to Study Genetics of the Brain
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DNA data and medical images combined to find clues to brain size.
Hollywood is soliciting ideas for a new TV series that will star a MacGyver like women engineer.
Hollywood Is Crowdsourcing for the Next ‘MacGyver'
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Hollywood is reaching out for your help to create the next “MacGyver” (or, for the younger future engineers, the next “CSI”).
Opportunity to submit video stories about being inspired by women in science. Deadline is quickly approaching.
Crowdsourcing Women in Science and Engineering | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network
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I could statistic you to death about how women are still underrepresented in science and engineering, but let me just give you this one about what ...
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RLI 277 9 Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription
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RLI 277 9 Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription Nicole Saylor, Head, Digital Library Services, University of Iowa Libraries Jen Wolfe, Metadata Librarian, University of Iowa Libraries Cmeasure, and rectify archival materials. Social media tools are makingrowdsourci…
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CrowdFlower Predicts Data Science Trends for 2015 [Infographic]
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Crowdsourcing and big data go well together. So it’s hardly surprising that the crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower recently put out an infographic predicting where data science is headed in 2015. Check it out after the jump!
Overly long article highlighting why it is important to have safeguards built into your computer based crowdsourcing projects if you want them to be at all effective.
How a lone hacker shredded the myth of crowdsourcing
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High-tech analysis of a 2011 DARPA Challenge suggests that far from being wise, crowds can’t be trusted
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Crowdsourcing yields a more accurate picture of rainfall and snowfall
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It's the season of dramatic weather, when everyone from the National Weather Service to farmers and insurers monitor predictions of weather conditions—and assessments of where severe weather and its impacts are greatest. In this environment, a citizen science project called CoCoRaHS—the Community ..…
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Bring It On Home: The Oxford English Dictionary
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The New York Public Library subscribes to hundreds of online research databases and electronic resources. While these resources are accessible at NYPL's research centers and branch libraries, many of them are also available to Library cardholders remotely.
If you are seeing robins show up in your neighborhood, take photos and upload here to help track their migration.
Robins | Citizen Scientists Track American Robin Migration | Journey North
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Welcome to Journey North's American Robin Migration Tracking Project. Beginning in February, citizen scientists across North America are invited to report their first robin of spring, waves of migrating robins, and the first robin song of spring. Please report these observations
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You can earn $13,000 a year selling your poop
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Yes, your feces are perhaps your greatest untapped monetary resource.
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Agencies' apps use crowdsourcing to gather data, provide services
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Map the coastline? Report on the weather? Check mobile phone speeds? Agencies use crowdsourcing do to what they could not on their own.
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Making Use of 500,000 Researchers: Tales from the Zooniverse
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Zooniverse.org is the world's largest and most successful collection of online citizen science projects, and has enabled volunteers to classify more than a million galaxies, discover planets around other stars, transcribe more than a million pages of ships' logs and even sort through ancient papyri.…
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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…
Smithsonian Digital Volunteers
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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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