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Crowdsourcing is an increasingly popular technique used to complete complex tasks or collect large amounts of data. This report documents the effort to employ crowdsourcing using the Mechanical Turk service hosted by Amazon. The task was to collect labeling data on several thousands of short videos clips as such labels would be perceived by a human. The approach proved to be viable, collecting large amounts of data in a relatively short time frame, but required specific considerations for the population of workers and impersonal medium through which data were collected.  +
Lichens are sensitive to air pollution, specially the air's acidity. Therefore, the presence or absence can be used to see how clean the air is. The goal of this application is to help to analyze, classify and measure the size of the lichens in order to study the quality of air in different areas of the cities.  +
According to [ Wikipedia] (nov. 2013), the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables individuals or businesses (known as Requesters) to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. It is one of the sites of Amazon Web Services. The Requesters are able to post tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a store-front, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs. Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service, or, more colloquially, Turkers) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the more limited MTurk Requester site  +
The API allows programmers to use the Amazon mechanical turk API. Three types of people interact with Amazon Mechanical Turk: * Requesters, who creates and pays for the work done by Workers. They can create and advertise work using the Amazon Mechanical Turk command line interface or the Requester User Interface and thereby not need developers * Workers, who find and accept work advertised by Requesters * Developers, who create Amazon Mechanical Turk applications that Requesters and Workers use.  +
The Andromeda galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. Using PHAT data from the Hubble Space Telescope we're hunting for star clusters in Andromeda and hidden galaxies that lie behind.  +
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BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like.  +
The BOINC server software (scheduler, data server, web pages) are installed on computers owned and managed by the projects to which you will donate time on your computer.  +
Bat Detective is an Zooniverse citizen science project which asks the public to turn detective to find bat calls in audio recordings across the world  +
Every plant tells a story. Whether you have an afternoon, a few weeks, a season, or a whole year, you can make an important contribution to better understand changing climates in your area. Our web site provides everything you need to get outside, make reports, and share what you find with others. Sign up and start making Project BudBurst observations today. We are looking forward to learning more about the stories your plants can tell. Simply register, select a plant(s), make regular observations of your plants throughout the seasons and submit your data. By choosing this approach, you benefit from having permanent site records that can be compared from year to year. If you are traveling, planning a hike, or can't make regular visits to a site, Single Reports may be the right approach for you. Register, select a plant, make a one-time observation of your plant, and submit your data.  +
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'''CS4CS''' stands for '''Citizen Science for Citizen Science'''. It describes what you are looking at, i.e. the collection of forms, templates and queries that can be accessed from this wiki's [[Portal: citizen science]] page. This protect is sponsored by the EU FP 7 [http://citizencyberlab.eu/ Citizen CyberLab]. Its aim is to collect information about Citizen Science Projects that are of interest to citizen science researchers but also to the public at large. See also: [[CS4CS technical documentation]]  +
Celebrate Urban Birds engages urban and rural residents in science, cultural, and community activities related to birds. Participants receive or download a free kit with posters, flower seeds, and data forms, then observe a small, defined bird-watching area for 10 minutes and report on the presence or absence of 16 species of birds. ([http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=1671 Citizen Science Program], The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, retrieved Sept. 24 2013)  +
Crowdsourced analysis of cancerous tissue: using images from Cancer Research UK volunteers help to classify archived cancer samples.  +
Citizen Sort is a website that contains tools and games to classify various species of insects, animals, and plants.  +
Several Citizen Science projects are custom made, i.e. do not rely on software packages that does "most of the job".  +
This is just a project description that can be used for testing .... At some point it will be removed....  +
Cornell Lab develops interactive online tools to engage hundreds of thousands of people in contributing bird observations and exploring the results.  +
CrowdCrafting is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform powered by the PyBossa software. This platform enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. CrodCrafting is there to help researchers, civic hackers and developers to create projects where anyone around the world with some time, interest and an internet connection can contribute. ([http://crowdcrafting.org/about about], retrieved 19:02, 14 October 2013 (CEST))  +
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According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esp_game Wikipedia] (10/2013), The ESP Game is an idea in computer science for addressing the problem of creating difficult metadata. The idea behind the game is to use the computational power of humans to perform a task that computers cannot do (originally, image recognition) by packaging the task as a game. It was originally conceived by Luis von Ahn of Carnegie Mellon University. Google bought a licence to create its own version of the game in 2006 called "Image labeler" in order to return better search results for its online images. Google's version was shut down on September 16, 2011 as part of the Google Labs closure in September 2011.  +
Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations. Einstein@Home uses volounteers computer's idle time to perform physical calculations.  +
EpiCollect.net provides a web and mobile app for the generation of forms (questionnaires) and freely hosted project websites for data collection. Data are collected (including GPS and media) using multiple phones and all data can be viewed centrally (using Google Maps / tables / charts).  +
EpiCollect provides a mobile phone and web application for the generation of forms and freely hosted project websites (using Google's AppEngine) for many kinds of mobile data collection projects. Data can be collected using multiple mobile phones running either the Android Operating system or the iPhone (using the EpiCollect mobile app) and all data can be synchronised from the phones and viewed centrally via the Project website (hosted on AppEngine) or directly on the phones.  +
EteRNA is a browser based game, developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, that engages users to solve puzzles related to the folding of RNA molecules.The project is funded by the National Science Foundation. Similar to Foldit—created by some of the same researchers that developed EteRNA—the puzzles take advantage of human problem-solving capabilities to solve puzzles that are computationally laborious for current computer models.  +
The EveryAware platform has been explicitly designed to support subjective impressions in conjunction with sensor data acquisition by introducing a extendable data concept. A central server efficiently collects, analyses and visualizes data sent from the arbitrary sources.  +
EveryAware intends to integrate theoretical and practical techniques from the disciplines of environmental sensing, computer science, statistical physics and social science to collect and analyse physical measurements from sensors and associated subjective opinions of participants. Real-time analysis results are then provided to you through this website. Different case studies integrate participatory sensing with the monitoring of subjective opinions.  +
Quote: Did you know that, thanks to a common little snail you can find in your garden, in the park or under a hedge, you can see evolution in your own back garden? We know evolution is a very slow process and it's the tiny changes accumulating over a long, long time that got us here. And you can see some of those tiny steps and help our research by joining the Evolution MegaLab. [http://www.open.ac.uk/darwin/links.php OU Darwin page] (nov 28, 2013)  +
A mobile application plus a platform which enables local communities to use a smartphone to compile and share a report on forest activity around their habitat.  +
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.  +
EyeWire is a game where volounteers map the 3D structure of neurons. By playing EyeWire, they help map the retinal connectome and contribute to the neuroscience research conducted by Sebastian Seung's Computational Neuroscience Lab at MIT. The connectome is a map of all the connections between cells in the brain. Rather than mapping an entire brain, we’re starting with a retina.  +
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Fold It is a computer game enabling volonteers to contribute to biochemistry research by resolving proteins puzzles. The game is part of an experimental research project, and is developed by the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry.  +
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Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies.  +
[http://geotagx.org/ GeoTag-X] is an open source platform set up by [http://www.unitar.org/unosat/ UNITAR-UNOSAT] within [http://citizencyberlab.org/ Citizen Cyberlab] to engage and educate volunteers all around the world in analysing media coming out of humanitarian crises and natural disasters. GeoTag-X aims to produce datasets that can be used in relief and recovery efforts by humanitarian and disaster response agencies, both within and outside the United Nations system. Large quantities of media, including photos and videos, are often generated during disasters and humanitarian operations. UNITAR-UNOSAT believes this media can complement existing efforts at gathering data to summarize disaster impacts and humanitarian response. With the GeoTag-X platform, we seek to gather all the relevant media coming out of a disaster situation or humanitarian operations, and to crowdsource analysis of that media so it can be used by the international community. GeoTag-X is built on the open source [http://pybossa.com/ PyBossa] and all code developed for GeoTag-X is made available on [https://github.com/geotagx GitHub]. GeoTag-X currently hosts 14 projects covering various disaster-related topics. Some of these were simply developed as test cases as we implemented new ideas and code, and almost all of them have been developed in collaboration with external organizations and agencies such as the [http://www.reach-initiative.org/ REACH Initiative], [http://www.fao.org/somalia/en/ UNFAO Somalia], and Yamuna’s Daughter, a project by [http://womenforsustainablecities.org/ Women for Sustainable Cities].  +
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Human Brain Cloud is a side project Kyle Gabler runs in his free time, originally created to teach myself web programming, but has become one of my favorite projects to tinker with. As of nov. 5 2013, the system includes 612908 unique words and 7182694 connections.  +
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Transcribing museum records to obtain historical biodiversity data.  +
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OPAL helps people to explore, study and enjoy their local environment. Discover our surveys and regional activities.  +
Help scientists recover Arctic and worldwide weather observations made by United States’ ships since the mid-19th century. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and will improve our knowledge of past environmental conditions. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and tell the stories of the people on board. [http://www.oldweather.org/ oldweather.org]  +
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"Pheno" as in Phenology: Phenology is the study of seasonal events in habitats. As part of the Phenoclim program we follow the dates of bud-break, flowering and leaf development in the spring; color change and leaf-fall in autumn. Ten species of trees and plants are studied in our area: downy birch, silver birch, ash, hazel, lilac, colt's foot, rowan, primrose, larch and spruce. "Clim" as in Climate: The Alps are a climate zone of particular interest in the study of climate change since the increase in temperature in this area in the last century was 1.4 degrees as compared to 0.7 degrees worldwide. Also, the great diversity of microclimates determined by altitude and slope aspect makes this area a particularly rich area of study. A network of Phenoclim temperature stations has been placed at key points throughout the massif.  +
Planet Hunters, the latest project from the Zooniverse, is a citizen science project. Participants help us sieve through data taken by the NASA Kepler space mission. These data consist of brightness measurements, or "light curves," taken every thirty minutes for more than 150,000 stars. Users search for possible transit events - a brief dip in brightness that occurs when a planet passes in front of the star - with the goal of discovering a planet (hence the name "Planet Hunters"). The most difficult detections for Planet Hunters and for computer-based searches will be those from planets that orbit far from their star and therefore cross the star infrequently. It may also be difficult for computer algorithms to detect planets in data that has artificial offsets (which can occur with telescope pointing errors or space craft rolls). Planet Hunter participants may be better than computers at finding signals in this type of data. Because of the outstanding pattern recognition of the human brain, we hope that participants will also establish new "families" or classifications for the light curves. We will be standing by to obtain more data at telescopes to better understand the underlying physical reason for the different classifications.  +
Classifying plankton from images gathered by the In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System.  +
Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms.  +
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.  +