by ginger | Jul 29, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
By now, you’ve probably heard about the exciting discoveries coming out of the research funded by the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. We love this example of how the community came together to push science forward, and have another example we’d like to share. This example...
by ginger | Jul 15, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Over the last two weeks, our amazing contributors completed the galactosemia/glycosylation mission which was derived from concepts that the Mark2Cure community identified from an even earlier mission. In other words, the galactosemia/glycosylation mission was made...
by ginger | Jul 1, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
A lot has happened in Mark2Cure since our last post. We launched a new entity recognition doc set, *ahem* I mean, mission last Monday, and are pleased to be able to launch a new one today. Because we are trying to keep our efforts concentrated, we limit the number of...
by ginger | Jun 17, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, games, mark2cure, serious games
For those of you who have been with us since the beginning, you might be wondering what Ben has been up to. Ben, if you recall, is the bearded scientist in this picture and the one who started Mark2Cure with the Amazon Mechanical Turk projects. In addition to trying...
by ginger | Jun 3, 2016 | citizen science, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
It has been an exciting two weeks! In celebration of the anniversary of our campaign for NGLY1, we launched a new module in Mark2Cure, followed by a launch event and a Mark2Curathon. Hence, we have a lot of prizes to send out this week. If you’ve won a prize or a...
by ginger | May 31, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
A little more than a week ago, we started celebrating the anniversary of Mark2Cure’s Campaign for NGLY1. We launched a new mission (doc set) the day before our anniversary, and opened up a brand new module the following Monday. Although we initially scheduled to...
