The Limits of Crowdsourcing in the Scientific Disciplines
Social networking and crowdsourcing have attributes that may make them both incompatible with the goals and process of science. Can we accept that?The Scholarly Kitchen.
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Crowdfunded science exhibit encourages duplication
The United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization headquarters in Paris recently hosted the launch of IMAGINARY, a new platform for collaborative mathematics and maths art, or open mathematics. The launch was part of the Mathematics of Planet Earth Day and the opening of the first international crowdsourced science, open source exhibition hosted by the platform: Mathematics of Planet Earth.
Crowd sourcing knowledge on plants
This platform wants to create a community sharing information on how to grow plants and own food, open access and CC-lincensed.Open Science versus Ash Dieback (and the Tweenome revisited)
Bluebell woods, the dense carpets of violet–blue flowers found in ancient woodland are a spectacular and famous springtime sight in Britain, but this picture postcard scene is threatened as never before.
Crowd sourcing for biology
BBSRC is offering up to £2M to support crowd sourcing projects for biological sciences. The funding will develop and deploy crowd sourcing approaches to complex, large-scale scientific problems within the remit of BBSRC.
http://vimeo.com/50738950
Crowdsourcing Discovery:
“It is time to experiment with the way we experiment. Using the Internet, we will enable the public to fund and participate in an open model of basic scientific research.”
See also the post from Oct., 15th 2012 referting to the Ethan O. Perlstein Lab.
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Crowd-sourcing a cure for cancer through the internet
Crowd-sourcing a cure for cancer through the internetMr Iaconesi has been diagnosed with cancer. He set up a website where he shares his medical records. He is crowd-sourcing a cure.
“Grab the information about my disease if you want and give me a cure, create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game, or try to find a solution for my health problem,” he wrote.
BBC News.
Anatomy of a crowdfunding process
Anatomy of a crowdfunding processEthan O. Perlstein, PhD. at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University on the structure and dynamics of a crowdfunding process:
Crowdsourcing Discovery our “Open Science” study of the effects of amphetamines on brain cells, went live last Thursday October 4th. We kicked off the 45-day crowdfunding campaign with an evening launch party at Deweys Flatiron in New York City.
Open Science and Crowd Science: Selected Sites and Resources
Open Science and Crowd Science: Selected Sites and ResourcesA list of websites on Open Science and Crowd Science including definition and principles, methods and introducing groups and individual initiatives (blogs) and projects.
A new online platform to discuss the digital agenda
A new online platform to discuss the digital agendaDigital Agenda Assembly.
A new online platform to discuss the digital agenda.
Crowdsourcing the analysis of scholarly tweets
Crowdsourcing the analysis of scholarly tweetsIn December Euan Adie and I [Martin Fenner] started the CrowdoMeter project, an analysis of the semantic content of tweets linking to scholarly papers. Because classifying almost 500 tweets is a lot of work, we turned this into a crowdsourcing project. We got help from 36 people, who did 953 classifications, and we discussed the preliminary results (available here) at the ScienceOnline2012conference.