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According to the official documentation (April 2013), “PyBossa is an open source platform for crowd-sourcing online (volunteer) assistance to perform tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence (e.g. image classification, transcription, information location etc). PyBossa was inspired by the BOSSA crowdsourcing engine but is written in python (hence the name!). It can be used for any distributed tasks application but was initially developed to help scientists and other researchers crowd-source human problem-solving skills!”
Currently (April 2015), pyBossa is fully functional.
[http://crowdcrafting.org/ Crowdcrafting] provides a hosting service. +
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reCAPTCHA is a user-dialogue system originally developed by Luis von Ahn, Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham and Manuel Blum at Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus, and acquired by Google in September 2009. Like the CAPTCHA interface, reCAPTCHA asks users to enter words seen in distorted text images onscreen. By presenting two words it both protects websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas and helps digitize the text of books. The reCAPTCHA service supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition (OCR) software has been unable to read. The subscribing websites (whose purposes are generally unrelated to the book digitization project) present these images for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words, as part of their normal validation procedures. They then return the results to the reCAPTCHA service, which sends the results to the digitization projects. +
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A suite of software that allows to implement extreme citizen science projects. So far, the suite is neither described nor published. According to current plants, it will be made availabe in late 2013/2014. +
Scistarter is a website that indexes citizen science projects from across the web. You can create an account and add a project by completing a rich form. Thereby the project will be connected to the community (project of the day,news letters showing new project etc..) +
Semantic Forms is an extension to MediaWiki that allows users to add, edit and query data using forms. It is heavily tied in with the [[Semantic MediaWiki extension]], and is meant to be used for structured data that has semantic markup.
Notice: This entry only describes the use of Semantic Forms in Citizen Science projects. For technical information, refer to [[Semantic Forms]]. +
Explore interactive diagrams to learn about the Sun and the spacecraft monitoring it. The STEREO spacecraft is scientists’ latest mission to study the Sun and space weather – not clouds and rain, but how solar storms change conditions in space and on Earth. +
Massive galaxies warp space-time around themselves, bending light rays so that we can see around them. They're the Universe's own telescopes, but these gravitational lenses are very rare: we need your help to find them! +
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The LHC@home 2.0 project Test4Theory allows users to participate in running simulations of high-energy particle physics using their home computers. +
Experimental tribe is a web platform for gaming and social computation. It helps researchers to realize web games/experiments and it let people join, while enjoying, the scientific research. +
We're asking you to help us find and draw circles on infrared image data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Understanding the material that we see in these images helps scientists to learn how stars form and how our galaxy changes and evolves with time. +
Transcribe Bentham is a an award-winning participatory project based at University College London. Its aim is to engage the public in the online transcription of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the great philosopher and reformer, via a transcription interface based on a customised [[MediaWiki]].
"Transcribe Bentham emerged out of initial discussions between Professor Philip Schofield, the Director of the Bentham Project, and Martin Moyle of UCL Library Services, regarding the production of a digital Bentham resource for a forthcoming Arts and Humanities Research Council funding call. Martin proposed the establishment of a resource to facilitate crowdsourced transcription of the Bentham Papers, and a potential partnership between the Bentham Project, UCL Library Services, UCL’s Centre for Digital Humanities, and the University of London Computer Centre. After an initial meeting between Professor Schofield, Martin, Dr Melissa Terras (UCL DH), and Richard Davis (ULCC), hosted by Library Services, the project consortium was formed."(About Us, official project page) +
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The WhaleFM project ask participants to help classifying calls of Whales, i.e. find close matching pairs of calls.
According to [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2012/04/19/whale-fm-where-citizen-science-whale-songs-and-education-come-together/ Mariette DiChristina], Whale.FM—a collaborative effort of Scientific American, Zooniverse and the research institutions WHOI, TNO, the University of Oxford and SMRU—lets citizen scientists help marine researchers who are studying what whales are saying. +
There are various kinds of pollution that get often on the first page of newspapers. Noise pollution instead is rarely cited, but it's something that constantly surrounds us even if we are not aware of. WideNoise will help you to better understand the soundscape around you & live a healthier life. ([http://cs.everyaware.eu/event/widenoise/ Ever heard of sound pollution?] (Nov. 6, 2013) +
We need the public’s help in observing the behaviour of tiny nematode worms. When you classify on wormwatchlab.org you’re shown a video of a worm wriggling around. The aim of the game is to watch and wait for the worm to lay eggs, and to hit the ‘z’ key when they do. +
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According to the official [https://www.zooniverse.org/about about] page (15/10/2013), the Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. +