Hi everyone,
At Zooniverse, we're also excited to be working with Trish and the Missouri
Botanical Garden on a project to crowdsource 19th Century scientific
illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. This is part of the
Constructing Scientific Communities project at Oxford. More news about this
project, as it progresses, will be posted on our blog at conscicom.org
Jim
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On 30 October 2014 14:59, Trish Rose-Sandler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There is lots of innovation coming out of public gardens!
>
> In the context of open data, The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) ,
> http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ , which is a global consortium of
> botanical garden and natural history libraries that have digitized their
> collections, has placed over 45 million pages of open access content
> online. The Missouri Botanical Garden, which is the technical development
> team for BHL, currently has 3 grant funded projects that build on top of
> this content through crowdsourcing descriptions of natural history
> illustrations [1], gamifying OCR correction [2], and data mining and
> semantic markup of the content [3].
>
> I would also mention Bob Coulter at the The Litzinger Road Ecology Center
> [4] , an educational center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, has been
> doing some very interesting work with augmented reality and having students
> design their own computer games as a tool to understand science.
>
> [1] http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Art+of+Life
> [2] http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Purposeful+Gaming
> [3] http://miningbiodiversity.org/
> [4] http://www.litzsinger.org/about-us/staff/
>
>
>
> Trish Rose-Sandler
> Data Project Coordinator, Center for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI)
> Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO
> (314) 577-9473 x6396
> skype: trish.rose1
>
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