Standing out in the crowd

My presentation from PPSR 2012 held in Portland http://www.citizenscience.org/community/conference2012/

Transcript

1. Standing out in the crowd Arfon Smith @arfon
2. The changing face of citizen science Arfon Smith @arfon
3. Lessons learned building Galaxy Zoo & the Zooniverse Arfon Smith @arfon
6. 1,000,000,000,000 1 trillion hours
7. Spectrum of cognitive surplus
8. Spectrum of cognitive surplus
9. Spectrum of cognitive surplus
12. http://www.novacelestia.com
14. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Professor
15. 0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 Professor Paper
16. 0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 Professor Paper PhD
17. 0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS
21. 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
22. 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 Fukugita et al. 2007
23. 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
24. 650,000 volunteers
25. 250,000,000 analyses
27. (it works)
41. Motivations
43. 70,000,000 Classifications Ethics of Citizen Science?
44. Social Contract
45. 1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3. Don’t waste people’s time
47. Why citizen science?
48. Scale (Measurable) Accuracy Serendipity Education
50. Known knowns
51. Known knowns Known unknowns
52. Known knowns Unknown unknowns Known unknowns
56. “These people are not doing the work of scientists, they are doing the work of scientific instruments.” David Weinberger, Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard
57. Engagement
58. What is Citizen Science?
59. PPSR Public Participation in Scientific Research
60. CBPR Community-based Participatory Research
61. PPFCSM
62. PPFCSM Public Participation as a fundamental component of the scientific method
63. PPFCSM Public Participation as a fundamental component of the scientific method Just kidding
64. Publish
65. Evaluate
66. Advocate
67. What is your social contract?
68. What constitutes a meaningful engagement?
69. Do you know what success looks like?
70. People are amazing
71. Thanks arfon@zooniverse.org @arfon