by ginger | Sep 12, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, research, sulab
In case you missed why Open Access is awesome, the lack of open access is only one of many barriers that discourage the dissemination of scientific information to the public. Fortunately, more researchers are publishing in Open Access journals or with Open Access...
by ginger | Sep 4, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, science, sulab, Thursday Science
In case you missed it, Caren Cooper et al. just published a fascinating research article on PLOS One (it’s open access, so check it out!) detailing her investigations on the contributions of citizen scientists in ornithological (bird) research. In this article...
by ginger | Aug 29, 2014 | biocuration, BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, research, sulab
The problem of keeping up with scientific literature is not new. In 1986, information scientist, Don R. Swanson, published an article about mining the wealth of knowledge buried in academic literature. In his article, “Undiscovered public knowledge”,...
by ginger | Jul 31, 2014 | Audubon Bird Counts, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, eyewire, foldit, GalaxyZoo, mark2cure, scistarter, serious games, sulab, The Cure, Thursday Science
The crowdsourcing of science is not new with professor Olmsted’s crowdsourcing of meteorological observations in early half of the 19th century followed by the Audubon bird counts and National Weather Service weather observations since the early 1900s. Prior to...
by bgood | Jul 28, 2014 | chordoma, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, nlp, sulab, zooniverse
The Zooniverse team, in collaboration with other members of the Oxford community including the Faculty of English Language and Literature, has recently started an initiative about Constructing Scientific Communities. As part of this initiative, they...
by bgood | Jul 28, 2014 | chordoma, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, nlp, sulab, zooniverse
The Zooniverse team, in collaboration with other members of the Oxford community including the Faculty of English Language and Literature, has recently started an initiative about Constructing Scientific Communities. As part of this initiative, they...
