Commons at the Intersection of Peer Production, Citizen Science, and Big Data: Galaxy Zoo “The knowledge commons research framework is applied to a case of commons governance grounded in research in modern…
Category: Citizen Science
Please Help Preserve This Historic Astronomical Data
Volunteers Needed to Preserve Astronomical History and Promote Discovery “Digitizing the ~500,000 glass plate images covering the full sky will foster new scientific discoveries for the currently ‘hot’ field of studying variability…
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy
The Influence of Social Movements on Space Astronomy Policy, Hannah E. Harris, Pedro Russo “Public engagement (PE) initiatives can lead to a long term public support of science. However most of the…
Citizen Science and Interstellar Dust
Mysteries of Space Dust Revealed “With the help of a distributed science project called Stardust@home, volunteer space enthusiasts from around the world combed through the video, flagging tracks they believed were created…
NASA's OpenNEX Cloud Data
NASA Launches Earth Science Challenges with OpenNEX Cloud Data “NASA is launching two challenges to give the public an opportunity to create innovative ways to use data from the agency’s Earth science…
Crowdsourcing Sunspot Classification
‘Hot or Not?’ Trinity Astrophysicists Ask Public to Rank Sunspots, Trinity College Dublin ‘Sunspots’ and ‘solar storms’ are the feature of an ambitious project being launched internationally by astrophysicists at Trinity College…
Citizen Science and Interstellar Bubbles
Leveraging Citizen Science and Machine Learning to Detect Interstellar Bubbles, astro-ph.GA “We present Brut, an algorithm to identify bubbles in infrared images of the Galactic midplane. Brut is based on the Random…