No Citizens No Science

Lessons from Citizen Science projects with 10 million contributions

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1. NO CITIZENS NO SCIENCE LESSONS FROM 10 MILLION CONTRIBUTIONS
2. @tokumin
3. PEOPLE POWER WHEN GIVEN THE RIGHT TOOLS, PEOPLE CAN DO AMAZING THINGS
7. OldWeather.org
8. Log of HMS Invincible,1914-12-08
12. 1 YEAR 24,000+ VOLUNTEERS 800,000+ TRANSCRIBED PAGES
13. HOW MOTIVATE
14. You can become a captain!
15. http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=1432.0 “A friend rings to say she's really sorry, but she's going to have to cancel your evening out, and your first thought is "Great, I can get on with my ship!"
19. www.oldweather.org/voyages
21. burials http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk
22. May 1911
23. Of 1000 transcribed logbook entries: 3 will be lost because of transcription errors 10 will be illegible At least 3 will be errors in the logs Individual transcriptions are about 97% accurate http://blogs.zooniverse.org/ oldweather/2011/03/better-than-the- defence/
24. PLANETHUNTERS
35. HOW MOTIVATE
42. PHILOSOPHY 1. Interesting problems 2. Real research 3. Respect for contributors
43. http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/
44. THANK YOU @tokumine http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/