We are very pleased to welcome Professor Alan Irwin the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and our own Eugenia Rodrigues (STIS, CSCS network) to discuss Citizen science and scientific citizenship. In 1995, Alan Irwin published Citizen Science - A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development, which advanced a notion of citizen science underpinned by the theoretical questions of STS and [...]
The School of History, Classics and Archaeology, under Professor Richard Roger, is running a 3-year project AHRC-funded to create bring together historical data about the city, from census and public and private records, and develop digital mapping resources of modern and historic edinburgh to support analysis, visualisation and communication of this information. A key element [...]
While those running 'citizen science' projects generally recruit volunteers there are many ways that researchers can use the services of commercial crowdsourced labour platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk or Crowdflower. There are two main ways this is being used: 1) As a source of participants for experiments, as an alternative to the usual use [...]
A brief interview with David Kilbey from Natural Apptitude, a company that works with researchers and organisations to engage the public with data collection, through the design of apps and websites, and the support of crowdsourcing projects in the field of biodiversity. Dave visited Edinburgh to speak at the seminar on Citizen Science and the [...]
Gavin Willshaw, from the University's Information Services, Library & University Collections, talks about a new digital engagement project, Metadata games which aims to improve the descriptive metadata of the library’s digital image collection, enabling the collections to be more easily accessible to scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwD3Fpk_mh8 Click here if Video does not show Link to a [...]
Nicola Osborne, of EDINA, talks about her experiences and insights from working on developing citizen science projects and platforms, notably in the field of environment and biodiversity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwB769iLdc
28 May - Informatics Forum - Room 4.31/4.33 – 10.00-12.15 http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/about/location We are welcoming two speakers whose exciting presentations will launch 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 [...]
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 [...]
This session is an opportunity to look at how media and communications can be used to promote a CSCS project and to engage and develop the community around a project. The kinds of issues to be discussed include aspects such as understanding the purpose and audience for your project; gaining exposure from a project; communicating these types [...]
