by ginger | Apr 22, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Although the San Diego Citizen Science Day expo was a bit of a last-minute event, it went rather well over all. An estimated hundred or so people showed up to the event and we got to meet and speak with a few Mark2Curators in person! A HUGE thanks to our Mark2Curators...
by ginger | Apr 18, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
We’ll put together a more detailed review of both the Mark2Curathon and the San Diego Citizen Science Day Expo towards the end of the week. In the mean time, here’s a quick breakdown of the event: Event started: April 15th, 2016 at 00:00 AM...
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 | 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...
