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We are delighted to invite you to our next seminar “Crowdsourcing Social History”, with Kate Lindsay (University of Oxford/Academic IT Services) and Melissa Highton (University of Edinburgh/Learning, Teaching and Web Services Division). Friday, 1st April 2016, 10.30 am – 1.00 pm, CMB (Chrystal Macmillan Building), Staff Room (6th floor), 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD Kate Lindsay is an Academic IT lead from the University of Oxford with particular responsibility for education enhancement and IT services to support public engagement…
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We are pleased to invite you to our workshop “How to crowdsource behavioural data in the social sciences”, with Jon Carr and Jasmeen Kanwal (Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh). Thursday, April 7th, 11:00–13:00, Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.20 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD, http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps?building=dugald-stewart-building DESCRIPTION Experiments with human participants are increasingly being conducted using online crowdsourcing platforms – the most well known being Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. These platforms allow you to reach a large population of participants and…
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The Edinburgh University Citizen Science and Crowdsourced Data and Evidence Network are pleased to host a mini-symposium on the theme of “Getting involved in the life-sciences – bringing ecology to the citizen” with the aim of showcasing citizen science projects connected to ecology or evolution within Scotland or connected to Edinburgh University. Speakers include: Rob Cubey on Citizen Science Projects hosted at the The Royal Edinburgh Botanic Gardens (http://www.rbge.org.uk). Ally Phillimore describing Christine Tansey’s Track-a-Tree project where volunteers can help measure the…
Find out moreCome and join us in welcoming Antoine Blanchard (Chargé de programmes Numérique + Transfert Mission Investissements d’avenir, University of Bordeaux) and discussing Citizen Science projects, best practices and networks with him. Antoine will be visiting the University of Edinburgh at the end of May and this is a perfect opportunity not just to introduce him to projects being carried out at UoE/by members of the network outwith the University but also to hear about Citizen Science endeavours that are taking…
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This workshop will address the methodological, ethical and service dimensions of using Paid Crowdsourcing Services such as Amazon Mechanical Turk in research, in order to inform University policy, and the work of individual academics and students. Topics: Methodology: designing appropriate and good quality research using paid crowdsourced microwork; Knowing your crowd; managing crowd workers; getting quality work. Ethics: ensuring fair wages and working conditions, designing good quality microwork. Services and Infrastructure: how to pay for mTurk, central provision and support…
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