Despite the well-documented value of biocollections for science and society, the ability of researchers and policy makers to utilize this resource has been slowed because a wealth specimen data are sequestered within collections institutions in analog formats. By unlocking biocollections from analog formats, we open the doors to new research about species responses to climate change, patterns of species invasion, and ecosystem response to human interaction, to name a few. We believe a quick, accurate, and economical means of digitizing the remaining biocollection data is to harness the power of crowd sourcing. We have begun a collaborative pilot project to transcribe data from natural history collection ledgers and specimen labels through a voluntary crowd-sourced application.
30. EcoHackNYC
New Yo r k , N o v e m b e r 4 th , 2 0 11
@andrewxhill
andrew@vizzuality.com
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I work at vizzuality\n
We are part of the CSA\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
What is Crowd Sourcing and Citizen Science? For those of you who missed the previous talk\n
At Vizzuality, we’ve been interested in crowd-sourcing for a while\nPlanetHunters, a project where you can help scientist to discover new planets outside the solar system. With over 2 million classifications already done there already more than 60 candidates!\n
2 Planets!\n
2 Planets!\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
OldWeather.org\n
A log book is like a diary where the sailors wrote what was going on every day. Their position, the weather, etc. Only in England there is probably more than 250.000 log books providing an incredible source of new data. \nBut interpreting those logs books is a hard task.\n
And this is how it works. You get to a page of a log book of a ship and start transcribing. First the date, the location... it could be a port or coordinates.\n
Then there is the actual weather records, temperature, wind, etc. You can basically move the window around capturing multiple of those. And finally you can capture any other notes they might wrote on the sides.\n
But how we convince people to help us? Well, first of all because you can promote to a captain! The more log book you digitized from a ship the more chances. And people love that! I also believe there is a lot of people helping here because this stuff matters.\n
Project that started last November, 91% of all log books scanned\n~700,000 log pages\n1 million weather observations\n10,000 amateur historical climatologists\n
But all this is done for a reason. We want to recreate the weather on the oceans long time ago so that we can understand our current and future climates. And for most areas this is the only source of information we are gonna have.\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
We’re not just good at what we do. We love what we do.\nWe are doing it for you. We want to work with you to make better science\n
The problem\n
Collaboration between,\nVizzuality, NHM, Field Museum, CUMNH, and CSA\n15,000 to 40,000 page images representing 800,000 to 1,000,000 \n\n\n
The problem\n
The problem\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n
Individuals working on regions collaboratively marking up biodiversity.\nWhat are we learning?\n1) How do we build this type of application?\n2) What can we learn about user reliability and accuracy? \n
More recently, NEEMO, an interesting project designed for both experts and community experts.\n