Crowdsourcing could discover new meteor showers and more

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crowdsourcing-could-discover-new-meteor-showers-and-more/

#Science #Crowdsourcing #Astronomy

Paul Litvak wrote a thoughtful piece on the limitations of the scientific journal article and the advantages of a proposed new genre or structure.
https://www.paullitvak.com/p/the-future-of-academic-journals

The new structure he describes is similar to one I proposed in 2012: one that would disaggregate claims and connect each one to the current evidence. See my 2012 essay, "The idea of an open-access evidence rack."
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32988193

One difference is that his would use #AI. Mine would use #crowdsourcing. But his could also use crowdsourcing and mine could also use AI.

Another is that his seems meant to stand alone. Mine is meant to be a dynamic collection of "perpetually updated, public footnotes" that might stand alone or might be cited, as footnotes, by articles, books, and any other new genres that might come along.

#Genres #ScholComm

PetaPixel: Florida Officials Need You to Identify Animals Captured on Trail Cameras. “The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has launched Florida Wildlife Watch, a new statewide participatory science program hosted on the Zooniverse web platform. The initiative invites the public to spend a few minutes per day or more reviewing and classifying trail camera images to help […]

Castellani Art Museum: Open Call: Help Build CAM’s Digital Art Resource Library. “As part of Hardwired: Foundational Works in Digital Art and the launch of the Nanula Digital Art Gallery, CAM is developing a Digital Art Resource Library—an expanding collection of texts that trace the history, theory, and future of digital practice. Rather than building this library from a single curatorial […]

UCLA: California Bird Atlas calls for public help to map breeding birds. “This first annual California Bird Atlas Big Weekend is an intensive event in which thousands of people will log bird observations and submit them to the world’s largest ornithology database. Scientists will study the information submitted to understand how and where birds live in a dynamic world.”

I'm not turning up results searching, so I'm turning to some old fashioned #crowdsourcing / #lazyweb :

Has anyone done a degree of rigorous testing on accuracy of open data sets for malicious open-source packages? Even just a random sample of GHSA or OSV malware flags assessed for accuracy would be helpful.

If it has both precision and recall data, bonus points! But I'll take what I can get.

Iowa State University: Integrating ‘citizen science’ with experimental data helps uncover how plants adapt. “Led in part by Iowa State University agronomy professor Jianming Yu, the research team identified the genetic basis for adaptative responses that help explain the contradictory flowering-time trends. But the framework – wringing useful insight from ‘citizen science,’ in this case […]

A (slightly edited) interview "Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing" by JT Long in Smart Meetings Magazine.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/interviews/2019/04/qa-with-adrian-segar-on-crowdsourcing

#meetings #EventDesign #interview #SmartMeetings #crowdsourcing #eventprofs