Galaxy Zoo
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Facts about "Galaxy Zoo"
Has Haklay typology level | crowdsourcing + |
Has address | University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK + |
Has citizen science subject area | space + |
Has collective performance feedback | N/A + |
Has community management | Volunteers are active on the Galaxy Zoo forum. They post the more striking images and discuss what they are. There are already some interesting results. + |
Has community manager | yes + |
Has community roles | Share interests + and share news about space research... + |
Has community tools | Website +, Blog + and Forum + |
Has completion level | High + |
Has contact person | None. Use the forum. + |
Has data types to manipulate | pictures + |
Has description of feedback and guidance | No training sequence, no tutorial, but
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Has field of science | Astronomy + |
Has gaming elements | challenges + |
Has individual performance feedback | N/A + |
Has infrastructure | Zooniverse + |
Has interaction with objects | Volunteers don't manipule images, they jus … Volunteers don't manipule images, they just have to answer questions about it.
e a kind of particular relation with data. +However participants can add images to their favourite and present, comment, discuss their image to the community. Volunteer can experience a kind of particular relation with data. |
Has interface attractivity | somewhat cool/attractive + |
Has interface usability | easy to use + |
Has main institution | oxford university + |
Has member profile elements | pseudo +, activity metrics + and other + |
Has member profiles | minimal + |
Has participant contribution type | data interpretation + |
Has participant task description | Volunteers users have to work with images … Volunteers users have to work with images taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey program. They decide whether the galaxies are elliptical or spiral and report if they have features like having spiral arm pattern bar or have undergone transformations. Volunteers can also decide to discuss image wich will appear then on a community wall. wich will appear then on a community wall. + |
Has peer to peer guidance | yes + |
Has project access URL | http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ + |
Has project description | Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. + |
Has project name | Galaxy Zoo + |
Has project news updates | N/A + |
Has project purpose | The main purpose is to understand how gala … The main purpose is to understand how galaxies formed. According to the Galaxy Zoo team : “"Galaxies come in very different shapes and have very different properties. they may be large or small, old or young, red or blue, regular or confused, luminous or faint, dusty or gas-poor, rotating or static, round or disky, and they live either in splendid isolation or in clusters. In other words, the universe contains a very colourful and diverse zoo of galaxies. For almost a century, astronomers have been discussing how galaxies should be classified and how they relate to each other in an attempt to attack the big question of how galaxies form." ”
The classification of images in Galaxy Zoo would help scientists to understand the structure of the universe and determine whether there is anything "fundamentally wrong" with existing galaxy models. ntally wrong" with existing galaxy models. + |
Has project start date | July 12, 2007 + |
Has research progress feedback | N/A + |
Has research question | Some research questions
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Has screenshot | GalaxieZoo.png + |
Has social software sites | Twitter +, Facebook + and other + |
Has subject area | Natural sciences + |
Has team leader | Chris Lintott + |
Has team link | http://www.galaxyzoo.org/#/team + |
Has team work | no + |
Has training sequence | no + |
Has tutorials and documentation | no + |
Has volonteer computing | no + |
Has volonteer gaming | no + |
Has volonteer sensing | no + |
Has volonteer thinking | yes + |
Is open | true + |
Last edition | October 1, 2013 + |