The Many “Hats” of Crowdsourcing: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

[http://www.birds.cornell.edu] Tina Phillips, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is probably best known for creating and implementing the traditional form of citizen science where people go and collect lots of data out in the field and share it with scientists who are interested in answering some questions. I have been there for about 16 years and in [...]

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The Universe of the Zooniverse

[https://www.zooniverse.org] Chris Lintott, Zooniverse, Oxford University I think I’m here because we’ve run 44 Zooniverse projects, so you’d think I’d have some sense of what best practice is, but the truth is we are still in a phase where I can point you at stuff that doesn’t work and tell you what we are trying to do to fix that. We [...]

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Crowdsourcing as Project Resource: Biodiversity Heritage Library Case Study

[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org] Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden, Biodiversity Heritage Library I work at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and was hired there to work on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). BHL is a consortium of natural history museums and botanical garden libraries that come together and digitize their collections and put them up online for open access as part of a [...]

By |2017-05-18T22:48:38-04:00September 28th, 2015|Case Study, Natural History, Science|Comments Off on Crowdsourcing as Project Resource: Biodiversity Heritage Library Case Study

Case Study: Aurorasaurus

[http://www.aurorasaurus.org] Liz MacDonald, NASA, Aurorasaurus I am the founder of a project called Aurorasaurus. I am a scientist, a physicist, and this citizen science project was designed to allow people to get a better idea of when they could see the northern lights. The reason we needed this was because there are no products designed for the public to do this [...]

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