by ginger | Apr 8, 2016 | citizen science, conference, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, mark2cure, wikipedia
Mark your calendars, the Mark2Curathon is coming! If you didn’t know, next week (April 10th to April 16th) is National Public Library (NPL) Week in the US. In addition to NPL week, April 15th is MicroVolunteering Day followed by Citizen Science Day on April 16th. This...
by ginger | Mar 25, 2016 | citizen science, mark2cure
Mark2Cure update The Oxidative Stress doc set is our second largest doc set in this campaign, and it’s over 96% complete. Doing just one quest in this doc set could make a huge difference in getting this doc set finished. Please help! Want to help Mark2Cure, but just...
by ginger | Mar 11, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
A lot has happened since our last Mark2Cure blog post. Andrew and other members of the Mark2Cure team were on twitter on Feb. 24th to talk about Mark2Cure during the citscichat focused on language-based citizen science projects. A storify of the event can be found...
by ginger | Mar 11, 2016 | citizen science, conference, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
(Updated 2016.04.08) We’ve been working with the La Jolla Public Library to commemorate the inaugural Citizen Science Day in the US. There will be a small Citizen Science Day Expo in San Diego which will showcase some of the many local citizen science projects that...
by Jacob Bruggemann | Mar 2, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, newrelease, zooniverse
We have previously mentioned our citizen science effort to identify biomedical concepts in text, Mark2Cure. However, there are tasks aside from text annotation that can overwhelm scientists. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM for short) is an increasingly popular...
by ginger | Feb 12, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, mark2cure, microtask
The authors page acknowledging the contributors to the Mark2Cure’s first paper is now LIVE! Please note that only users who submitted annotations or contributed feedback during the beta phase will be listed on this site. If you have been following our journey...
