In the second seminar of the CSCS Network, Gavin Willshaw, Scott Renton and Claire Knowles, from the Edinburgh University’s Information Services, Library & University Collections, discussed the main aspects behind the library’s new metadata game, a digital crowdsourcing metadata tagging game (described by Gavin Willshaw in this video) which aims to improve the descriptive metadata [...]
The first event of the network welcomed Grant Miller, the communications lead for the Zooniverse on-line citizen science platform, and Mark Hartswood, the co-founder of the Edinburgh University Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Network. Their presentations took place at the Social Informatics Forum on the 28th of May 2015, and it was an ideal launch of [...]
The Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Show & Tell event took place in the Event Space of the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) on Tuesday 24 November 2015, from 13.00 to 16.30. It was one of the two events organized by our network (in partnership with the NMS) on the same day, the second one [...]
Thursday, 22nd October This session we looked at how media and communications can be used to promote a CSCS project and to engage and develop the community around a project. This included aspects such as understanding the purpose and audience for your project; gaining exposure from a project; communicating these types of projects effectively; engaging the press; expectation [...]
October 1st 2015 Members of the Network, Dr Jamie Cross and Dr William Mackaness presented a special event as part of the Edinburgh University Global Development Academy Lecture series and the State of the Map Scotland Conference. This event was a international public conference on maps, mapping and humanitarianism in collaboration with OpenStreetMap and [...]
Monday 24 August, 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m., A key area where citizens are engaging in collective knowledge production and sharing is in health and medicine. One the one hand, sufferers of conditions, particularly long term chronic conditions are taking it in to their own hands to explore and test treatments; On the other, data [...]
Monday 22 June 2015 The second seminar of the series was presented by staff from the University's Information Services, Library & University Collections, Gavin Willshaw, Scott Renton and Claire Knowles. The library has an online collection of around 20,000 digital images, many of which only have very basic catalogue records. In order to make these images [...]
28 May - Informatics Forum For this event we welcomed two speakers whose exciting presentations launched our discussions: - Grant Miller (Zooniverse): ‘The Zooniverse - Real Science Online’ ‘The Zooniverse is the world's largest and most successful citizen science platform. I will discuss what we have learned from building over 40 projects, and where [...]
