Citizen science 2.0
NASA-ROSES Project
Digital Earthwatch Workshop
University of New Hampshire
April 23-24, 2009
Fabio Carrera (WPI) – carrera@wpi.edu
Steve Guerin (Redfish) – stephen.guerin@redfish.com

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Crowdsourcing 2.0
• Citizen Science is crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing 2.0
Collect Analyze
Organize

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Customize
Gadgets
Widgets

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Visualize
Many Eyes
Photosynth

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Share
Facebook
Ning

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Repeat
Remember the Milk
reCaptcha

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Harvest
Flickr
Cornell
G-Phone

Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

Expand
Sourceforge
Ushahidi

Picturepost Satellite Analyses Earthcaches (groundspeak)
PicturePost
Bird sightings (Cornell Ornithology Lab)
Time series
Alerts
• Ice melted on Sugden Lake, Spence MA (yesterday)
• Buds out in Santa Fe (Wednesday)
• Geese sighted in Swampscott, MA (4/20/09)
•
Budburst
Monitor your buddies

The Vision
upload organize
SMS
feedback
contribute
share
repository
correlate analyze
visualize

The Vision
SMS
Email

Discussion
• Citizen scientist recruitment and registration via web tools and traditional means
• Member retention strategies
• Feedback mechanisms – data visualization and interaction between your organization
and its members
• Collaborative tools – member-to-member interaction and collaboration
• Alphanumeric data vs. visual/photographic/audio data management
• Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
• success stories
• as well as failures
• release our software tools as open-source
• establish an ongoing collaboration with your organizations
• engage with you to produce re-usable web services of direct and immediate use to
you in your organizations.