by ginger | Jun 18, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, conference, mark2cure, presentation
A HUGE thanks to all the dads (and EVERYONE) who has been contributing to make a difference for the NGLY1 families. Shipping delays Apologies to international prize and drawing winners who were waiting for their prizes. Most of the international packages that we...
by ginger | May 26, 2017 | citizen science, CitSci2017, Cochrane Crowd, conference, mark2cure, MedLitBlitz, poster, presentation
The last few weeks have been a bit hectic, so we’ve got plenty of news and info to share with you. First of all, if you haven’t seen it yet, Cochrane Crowd has posted about about our joint webinar and the #MedLitBlitz. If you missed the webinar or had...
by ginger | Dec 26, 2016 | big data, biocuration, conference, Gene Wiki, poster, presentation, publication, semantic wikipedia, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
I knew it! Last year, I struggled with the year-end post for the Gene Wiki/WikiData (AKA the Gene WikiData) project because the Gene WikiData team was incredibly active. I learned my lesson, and attempted to better track their activity earlier this year with a running...
by ginger | Oct 8, 2016 | collective wisdom, community intelligence, conference, Gene Wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most widely used and freely accessible knowledgebases. As one of the largest, crowdsourced resources, many researchers are engaged in making the Wikimedia platform more useful in scientific research—including researchers from our lab here at...
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 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...
