Introduction to the Zooniverse from #dhpedagogy, Digital Pedagogy and the Humanities.

1. Jim O’Donnell
University of Oxford

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4. Galaxy Zoo: help astronomers classify galaxies
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galaxyzoo.org
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25. zooniverse.org

26. 1.1mworldwide
21projects

29. Planet Hunters
27%
Galaxy Zoo
17%
Planet Four
10%
Serengeti
7.9%
MWP
7.5%
Seafloor
8.3%
Space Warps
4% Cell Slider
3%SETI Live
3%
Andromeda
2%
Old Weather
3%
Solar Stormwatch
2%
Moon Zoo
1%
Ancient Lives
1%
Cyclone Center
1%Bat Detective
1%NfN
0% Whale FM
0%
Distribution of 52 years worth of human attention
across the Zooniverse, June 2012 to June 2013
zooniverse.org

30. years
Every
Hour

31. papers
zooniverse.org/publications

32. User interfaces

33. Ancient Lives: transcribe the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
47,000+
volunteers
ancientlives.org
classifications
9,000,000

34. operationwardiary.org

35. Old Weather: study climate change using ships’ logs
28,000
volunteers
oldweather.org
completed pages
400,000

36. operationwardiary.org

37. Operation War Diary: study the British Army on the Western Front
9,000
volunteers
operationwardiary.org
completed pages
84,000

38. operationwardiary.org

39. Motivation

40. 0%
13%
25%
38%
50%
Motivation
Contribute Astronomy
Discovery Beauty
Vastness Science
Fun Learning
Community Other
zooniverse.org/publications

41. “The ‘real’ story that those logs
imply is as hypnotically fascinating
as any form of fiction or non-fiction
[…] The ship and crew became
friends and even the handwriting
became clues as to whom had the
watch for the day.”
Eveleigh et al. 2013

42. “I have just entered the name of an officer who died in
1914 into Ancestry and found someone researching him. i
decided to contact that person and give them the info i
have found. I thought this is a good way for genealogists
to share some of this information - as a genealogist i
would be thrilled if someone offered me some! it's a good
way for us to get some information out to those who are
interested, as i am finding it frustrating that there is so
much info that people won't discover. this has now spurred
me on far more as i hope i can help other genealogists!
what do others think?”
talk.operationwardiary.org

43. “Oh just like in the evening, you
know for an hour or two before I
went to bed or something, you
know at home, something like
that. And not every day, only on
days when I had time. It was a
pretty informal thing, yeah.”
Eveleigh et al. 2014

44. “I have only occasional
opportunities to enjoy time on Old
Weather, but it can be a delightful
escape. I choose not to use its
interactive features because this
is one of the places I go for me
time.”
Eveleigh et al. 2014

45. “I have tried most of the Zooniverse
projects. On a couple I didn’t feel
that I was doing a good job (and
didn’t enjoy that feeling!), so I soon
stopped. On others, I felt that I was
doing something useful, so I
continued to work on them even if it
wasn’t that interesting.”
Eveleigh et al. 2014

46. “Like many Zooniverse projects, the
user community is talking to and
educating each other. In the case of
papyrology, some have done their
own online research to learn more
about ancient Greek writing on
papyrus, and are coming back into
Ancient Lives to guide others.”
James Brusuelas

47. “Some regular feedback (as
occurred after the first week)
would be good! Totals tagged so
far....diaries, pages, names,
places, etc...”
talk.operationwardiary.org

48. Tools for Citizen Scientists

49. Tools for Citizen Scientists

60. Serendipity

61. zooniverse.org/publications

63. Serendipity
...in the Zooniverse

64. Serendipity
...in the Zooniverse

65. Rise of the Machines

68. daily.zooniverse.org

69. zooniverse.orgJim O’Donnell - @pekingspring
jim@zooniverse.org