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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts tagged with citizen-science

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What Makes a Citizen Science Project Successful?

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BHL supports a variety of crowdsourcing, or citizen science, initiatives that allow our community to help enhance our data, making it easier for scientists, researchers, educators, students, and others around the world to discover BHL content and use it to support scientific, conservation, and historical research.
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October 1, 2015byGrace Costantino
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Smorball and Beanstalk: Games that aren’t just fun to play but help science too

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As game players are growing beanstalks and leading the Eugene Mellonballers to victory, historic books are being saved from digital oblivion.

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August 28, 2015byTrish Rose-Sandler
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Herding the Fuzzy Bits: What do you do after Crowdsourcing?

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So you’ve been crowdsourcing and now you’ve collected lots of fantastic data. What do you do with it? Or maybe you’ve been thinking about crowdsourcing but you’re not sure how you would integrate what you get with the data you already have. The truth is that crowdsourcing often yields lots of fuzzy data and fuzzy solutions for reintegration with existing content.

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June 16, 2015byGrace Costantino
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Citizen Science Uses Art to Unlock Scientific Knowledge

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Since the release of Science Gossip a little less than a month ago, 3,600 volunteers have enthusiastically completed 160,000 classifications of natural history illustrations from the pages of 19th century science periodicals!
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March 31, 2015byTrish Rose-Sandler and Grace Costantino
BHL News, Blog Reel, Campaigns, Garden Stories

Help us Improve Access to Seed and Nursery Catalogs!

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In celebration of our Garden Stories event, we’ve released some of our seed catalogs for transcription as part of our Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded Purposeful Gaming project. Seed catalogs are notoriously difficult subjects for Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) to parse (which produces searchable text files of digitized images), so searching the text of online vintage seed catalogs is often problematic.
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March 23, 2015byGrace Costantino
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Zooniverse releases Science Gossip

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Zooniverse unveils its latest project called Science Gossip which is an investigation into the making and communication of science in both the Victorian period and today. This project is born from a collaboration between an Arts and Humanities Research Council project in the UK, called ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’ (ConSciCom) and the Missouri Botanical Garden who provided content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). The publication of books and periodicals are key locations for knowledge about the natural world.
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March 4, 2015byTrish Rose-Sandler
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The Plants of Acadia National Park

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As part of our regular BHL and Our Users series, we’re pleased to introduce Dr. Karen James, staff scientist at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL). Karen holds a PhD in genetics and has worked in her field for 11 years since receiving her degree. About seven years ago, her interests began shifting towards biodiversity and citizen science applications and she has graciously agreed to answer some questions about how BHL has impacted that work.

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November 15, 2013byCarolyn Sheffield
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