by ginger | Dec 30, 2016 | citizen science, community-annotation, mark2cure
Happy New Year!!! Thank you for contributing to Mark2Cure with your annotations, comments, questions, bug reports–and general feedback. You’ve made the Mark2Cure project an amazing project to work on and we are so grateful that you found us. Many of you...
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 | Apr 15, 2016 | citizen science, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
It’s now April 15th, and the official start of the Mark2Curathon! Thanks to our Mark2Curators, two of our doc sets were completed before the start of the Mark2Curathon, so we will be opening TWO new doc sets–making more prizes available. The new doc sets...
by ginger | Jan 22, 2016 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open science
If it hasn’t been evident enough from the Gene Wiki activity, or BioGPS’s community expandable resources (plugins), or our citizen science initiative, Mark2Cure, we’re very enthusiastic about crowdsourcing and community-based resources here in the Su...
by ginger | Oct 16, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Over the last week, we’ve been user-testing some features which we hope to introduce in the future. Some of these features are still in very early stages of development, so it may be awhile before our Mark2Curators start to see them. Since some of our Mark2Curators...
by ginger | Oct 9, 2015 | community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
When we first started moving Mark2Cure from Amazon Mechanical Turk to the internet at large, we decided early on that we would let the contributors take the steering wheel on the project. During beta testing, advocates from various rare disease communities (like...
