Lessons Learned Building the Zooniverse

Presentation at Botany Conference 2013 in New Orleans

Transcript

1. Lessons Learned Building the Zooniverse Arfon Smith @arfon
3. http://www.novacelestia.com
5. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Professor
6. 0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 Professor Paper
7. 0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 Professor Paper PhD
8. 0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS
12. 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 Classifications per hour Hours 1 Kevin months Fukugita et al. 2007
13. 170,000 volunteers
14. 50,000,000 analyses
17. http://is.gd/4thpdg
18. Ancient Lives 07.2011 WhaleFM 11.2011 SETILive 02.2012 Snapshot Serengeti 12.2012 Galaxy Zoo 09.2012 Cyclone Center 09.2012 NEEMO 10.2011 Ice Hunters 08.2011 What’s the Score 05.2012 740,000 Total Volunteers 500,000 Total Volunteers Cell Slider 10.2012 Bat Detective 09.2012 Andromeda Project 12.2012 Seafloor Explorer 09.2012 Old Weather 10.2010 The Milky Way Project 12.2010 Galaxy Zoo 7.2007 SPACE CLIMATE HUMANITIES NATURE HEALTH Mergers 11.2009 Moon Zoo 05.2010 Supernovae 03.2010 Planet Hunters 12.2010 Hubble 04.2010 250,000 Total Volunteers Solar Stormwatch 02.2010 THE ZOONIVERSE 2007-2012
27. Some Lessons Learned
28. Authenticity Matters (it’s not a game)
31. Tools
32. Tools
33. Community Matters
36. Discuss
38. Tag
40. Collect
43. Community Matters
46. Context Matters
56. OW Voyages, Map
57. Credit: Simon Tokumine http://is.gd/oldww1
61. You Matter
63. Why Zooniverse-like citizen science?
64. Scale (Measurable) Accuracy Education Serendipity
65. 70,000,000 Classifications Ethics of Citizen Science?
66. Social Contract
67. 1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3. Don’t waste people’s time
68. Think about your social contract
69. Do you know what success looks like?
72. 1,000,000,000,000 1 trillion hours
73. Spectrum of cognitive surplus
74. Thanks arfon@zooniverse.org @arfon