Mia

New blog post and a request for help - I'm looking for examples of national portals / infrastructure / support for citizen science / crowdsourcing projects

https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2023/01/national-approaches-to-crowdsourcing-citizen-science/

So far I have France and Slovenia - does your country have one that I haven't found yet?

#CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #crowdsourcing #OnlineVolunteering

National approaches to crowdsourcing / citizen science? – Open Objects

Feb 3, 2023 at 1:29pmWeb
Show threadMiaFeb 5, 2023

Thanks everyone who's suggested national portals and organisations for citizen science and crowdsourcing! I've added them to my post at https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2023/01/national-approaches-to-crowdsourcing-citizen-science/

I've also updated an earlier post on international crowdsourcing projects https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2015/05/crowdsourcing-world/ for links about specific projects

Thanks to @BuffaloResearch @DavidH @_bydbach_ @ennomeijers @alastairdunning @CitSciLab @agata @MadorlandoLiz (hopefully I didn't miss anyone out!)

National approaches to crowdsourcing / citizen science? – Open Objects

Show threadMiaFeb 7, 2023
I've updated this post again - first Austria, suggested by Jan Smeddinck, and Brazil, suggested by @lesandrop
Show threadRita SingerFeb 3, 2023
@mia Have you seen iRecord yet? It encourages citizen scientists to identify the birds and the bees and the flowers and anything that moves or wobbles. https://irecord.org.uk/
Home | iRecord

Show threadMiaFeb 3, 2023
@_bydbach_ I hadn't, thanks for the tip! I wonder how it relates to iSpot https://www.ispotnature.org/ (and iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/ internationally)
Home | iSpot Nature

Home : iSpot Nature - Your place to share nature. iSpot is a website aimed at helping anyone identify anything in nature. Once you've registered, you can add an observation to the website and suggest an identification yourself or see if anyone else can identify it for you.

Show threadRita SingerFeb 3, 2023
@mia I genuinely don't know how they are related.
Show threadDavid HaskiyaFeb 3, 2023
@mia In Sweden there is https://medborgarforskning.se/ Provides an intro to citizen science, a catalogue of Swedish projects, etc. Seems to be part of an EU-network of such sites.
Medborgarforskning.se

Show threadDavid HaskiyaFeb 3, 2023
@mia Summary in English here https://medborgarforskning.se/eng/
In English – Medborgarforskning.se

Show threadMiaFeb 3, 2023
@DavidH awesome, thank you!
Show threadBen W. BrumfieldFeb 4, 2023
@mia @DavidH Is medborgarforskning.se confined to natural sciences? I don't see https://sok.riksarkivet.se/om-soktjansten?infosida=transkribera on it.
Om söktjänsten - Riksarkivet - Sök i arkiven

Riksarkivet bevarar vårt gemensamma minne.Vi värnar rätten till demokratisk insyn och den enskildes rättssäkerhet samt skapar vägar till kunskap om vår framtid och vårt förflutna.Arkiv, riksarkivet, krigsarkivet, Svensk arkivinformation, mediakonverteringscentrum, mkc, digitalisering, digitalisera, skanning, svensk museitjänst, smt, landsarkivet i Göteborg, landsarkivet i Härnösand, landsarkivet i Lund, landsarkivet i Uppsala, landsarkivet i Vadstena, landsarkivet i Visby, landsarkivet i Östersund, Värmlandsarkiv, Riksarkivet, heraldik *, heraldisk *, heraldiska vapen, heraldiska symboler, heraldiska nämnden, landskapsvapen, landskapssymboler, riksvapnet, sveriges flagga, svenska flaggan, diplomatarium, släktforskning, släktforska

Show threadDavid HaskiyaFeb 4, 2023

@benwbrum @mia No, it shouldn't be! I'll get in touch with them to ask them to add our project as a case.

In general though citizen science in Sweden is very dominated by biodiversity and environmental sciences. A recent report from our National Library even indicated that some humanities researchers feel threatened by citizen science!

Show threadMiaFeb 4, 2023
@DavidH @benwbrum I've noticed some resistance to including GLAM / citizen history in citizen science work, so perhaps there's room to find common ground still
Show threadDavid HaskiyaFeb 13, 2023
@benwbrum @mia Ben, the project to transcribe the petition for women's suffrage is now on medborgarforskning.se (and the EU-site as well).
Show threadBen W. BrumfieldFeb 13, 2023
@DavidH @mia Hooray! I love to see history included.
Show threadRita SingerFeb 3, 2023
@mia In Wales, we have the People's Collection, which functions as a citizen archive of Wales' history and heritage. https://www.peoplescollection.wales/
A People's Story of Wales | Peoples Collection Wales

Upload your stories and pictures today or take a look at the Help section for tips on getting started. ...

Peoples Collection Wales
Show threadRita SingerFeb 3, 2023
@mia Similarly, there's HistoryPin. https://www.historypin.org/
Historypin

Historypin
Show threadRita SingerFeb 3, 2023
@mia This particular collection is a favourite of mine, as it's been crowdsourced of all sorts of ritual deposits across the UK. https://www.historypin.org/en/person/66740
Historypin

Historypin
Show threadMiaFeb 3, 2023
@_bydbach_ eek, I just had a look and it's looking a bit spammy. I've written to them in case they hadn't noticed
Show threadMiaFeb 5, 2023
@_bydbach_ I don't suppose you know the Welsh word for 'crowdsourcing' or 'citizen science' or 'citizen history'?
Show threadRita SingerFeb 5, 2023

@mia 'Citizen history' would be 'hanes dinasyddion' and 'Citizen science' 'Gwyddoniaeth dinasyddion'. I need to hunt for 'crowd sourcing' elsewhere tomorrow.

ETA: edited for typo.

Show threadRita SingerFeb 6, 2023
@mia 'Cyfrannu torfol' for 'crowdsourcing'.
Show threadBuffaloResearchFeb 4, 2023
@mia
From the U.S. National Archives:
https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist
Citizen Archivist

One day all of our records will be online. You can help make it happen. You can become a citizen archivist — just click one of the options below to get started. You Can Tag It! Add tags to images and records of the National Archives. Previous Next Welcome to our Citizen Archivist program. You can make contributions to the National Archives Catalog to enhance access and discoverability. Transcribe historical documents, tag archival photographs, or share comments with other community members. Join us! Every contribution you make helps unlock history.

National Archives
Show threadBuffaloResearchFeb 4, 2023
@mia
From the U.S. National Weather Service:
https://www.weather.gov/cle/CWOP
Citizen Weather Observer Program

Show threadEnno MeijersFeb 4, 2023
@mia In the Netherlands there is https://velehanden.nl run by https://picturae.com/en/ and https://hetvolk.org run by @mmmenno and colleagues. Both platforms have no English information available so I suggest to contact the people behind them for more information.
VeleHanden

Indexeren voor iedereen

VeleHanden
Show threadAgata BochynskaFeb 4, 2023
@mia Norway has recently formed a national network for citizen science that’s coordinated by Research Council of Norway https://www.forskningsradet.no/forskningspolitikk-strategi/nasjonalt-nettverk-folkeforskning/
Nasjonalt nettverk for folkeforskning

Folkeforskning innebærer å engasjere og involvere folk som ikke har forskerbakgrunn i forskning, i samarbeid med forskere eller forskningsinstitusjoner.  

Show threadAlastair DunningFeb 4, 2023
@mia In the Netherlands there is also a Citizen Science network, run by @CitSciLab. It is part of the national programme on Open Science
Show threadLizMFeb 4, 2023
@mia The Library of Congress has a great project: crowd.loc.gov
Show threadRenéeFeb 7, 2023
@mia there was one where everyone could open a browser and get a page of old weather measurements from the past hundred years, they needed people to validate the OCR and fill in what couldn't be recognized. Right at the start of the pandemic IIRC...
Show threadMiaFeb 7, 2023
@reneestephen sounds like one of the Old Weather projects, maybe the Australian one?
Show threadRenéeFeb 7, 2023
@mia oh! No, it was Rainfall Rescue: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/26/call-isolated-britons-help-digitise-historical-rainfall-data
Call for isolated Britons to help digitise historical rainfall data

Climate change scientists planning to transcribe paper records from 1820s to 1950s

The Guardian
Show threadMiaFeb 7, 2023
@reneestephen oh yes! Gosh that feels like forever ago