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...
by Andrew Su | Sep 5, 2013 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, mark2cure
This is the fifth and final blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. Crowdsourcing is all about motivating large groups of individuals to collaboratively achieve some shared vision. For example, the Wikipedia crowd primarily uses...
