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...
by ginger | May 20, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Since our last blog post, users have completed 210 quests, submitted 1050 annotated abstracts, closed out the last of our autophagy-based missions (doc sets), and brought the first of the GlcNAC missions to near completion. The winners for our bi-weekly contribution...
by ginger | May 6, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
A new doc set is now available in the dashboard. Don’t worry though, you can still view the results of the recently completed doc sets by going to the landing page in Mark2Cure. Speaking of the landing page, we’ve been working on making more of Mark2Cure’s content...
