I’m delighted to find that “The Internet Oracle” is still going, some 36+ years after it started
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113676
#InternetOracle #crowdsourcing
New #OpenAccess book on #CitizenScience #Crowdsourcing and #Geography in Italian just out. Citizen Science, territorio e comunità
Prospettive geografiche per la ricerca e azione by Venere Stefania Sanna, Cristina Capineri, Giacomo-Maria Salerno, Michela Teobaldi https://media.fupress.com/files/pdf/24/15909/44677
Wer es noch nicht kennt: Artigo verschlagwortet Bilder der Kunstgeschichte mit User Generated Content und Gamification – kollektive Bildbeschreibung spielerisch nutzen! 
https://www.artigo.org/de
#DigitaleKunstgeschichte #Gamification #Crowdsourcing
Please report & block any #fraudulent #MutualAid posters because those spam scammers harm people like me - who are asking for help via mutual aid posts here. Please never donate to anyone before checking their profiles (including mine!). Please avoid donating to anyone who has zero posting history here. Please avoid donating to anyone who has ONLY mutual aid posts & not much else. Please forgive yourself(if you've been scammed) & learn how not to be scammed by fraudulent grifters who are playing upon peoples' compassion & abusing kind, caring folks for their own selfish & dishonest wants - not needs. Please keep helping people who are transparent & truly need mutual aid assistance.
What do you think about this?
MicroPasts is a citizen science platform combining archaeology, heritage, and digital collaboration.
A fascinating model for participatory research: https://micropasts.org/
Can anyone recommend a good domain registrar? I want something that isnt hosted in a privacy-adverse country like the US. I was originally looking at Swiss based providers, on the idea that their goverment might be more privacy oriented...maybe not so quick to hand over info.
Back in March I had moved one domain over to Infomaniak as a test. Service seemed good and reliable and I liked the idea of their document hosting. However, Im glad I held off:
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloud-service-infomaniak-steps-up-fight-with-proton-over-controversial-swiss-surveillance-law
Great to learn about crowdsourcing Latin American digital archives collecting records about the COVID-19 pandemic https://revista.arquivonacional.gov.br/index.php/revistaacervo/article/download/2297/2361?inline=1 by Ian Kisil Marino
A Comprehensive Framework For Evaluating The Quality Of Street View Imagery
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103094 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS
• [They] propose the first comprehensive quality framework for street view imagery.
• Framework comprises 48 quality elements and may be applied to other image datasets.
• [They] implement partial evaluation for data in 9 cities, exposing varying quality.
• The implementation is released open-source and can be applied to other locations.
• [They] provide an overdue definition of street view imagery..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #streetlevelimagery #Crowdsourcing #QualityAssessmentFramework #Heterogeneity #imagery #dataquality #metrics #QA #urban #cities #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #StreetView #Google #Mapillary #KartaView #commercial #crowsourced #opendata #consistency #standards #specifications #metadata #accuracy #precision #spatiotemporal #terrestrial #assessment
JOB: Research Associate (pre- or postdoc) in the project Art and the Digital Platform Economies.
Focus areas include crowdsourcing, AI-generated images, and crowdfunding in contemporary art.
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
#DigitalArt #PlatformEconomy #ArtHistory #Crowdsourcing #DigitalHumanities
Research Associate (Pre- or Po...
JOB: Research Associate (pre- or postdoc) in the project Art and the Digital Platform Economies. Focus areas include crowdsourcing, AI-generated images, and crowdfunding in contemporary art.
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/fb2cf76e572c0475801803110121b57f9d3c25f80
#DigitalArt #PlatformEconomy #ArtHistory #AIArt #Crowdsourcing #Crowdfunding #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #LMUMunich #DigitalHumanities #ArtAndTechnology
Notes from Poland: Polish museum launches app for youth to record untold WWII stories. “The Warsaw Rising Museum has launched a new app, called Memory Factory, to help young people document the wartime recollections of the remaining members of the generation who lived through the Second World War.”
A few minutes for Myanmar.
A few minutes to make a difference.
Join us in supporting the #OpenStreetMap community in Myanmar (myOSM) and Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific to map affected areas from the #MyanmarEarthquake2025.
Map now 
https://bit.ly/mapmmearthquake
In case you missed it, this post on 'The Critical Role of U.S. Federal Funding in Zooniverse' is a great overview of Zooniverse's contribution to participatory research infrastructure https://blog.zooniverse.org/2025/04/30/the-critical-role-of-u-s-federal-funding-in-zooniverse/
Saw an article today about the Virtual War Memorial and remembered that way back in 2008 at the National Archives we hacked together Google Maps and Tumblr to enable people to upload images and stories about WWI service people. In the 6 months following the site's launch there were more than 1,000 of these 'scrapbook' posts.
The NAA later rebuilt the site, and a couple of years ago they completely removed it. You can find bits on the Internet Archive & Trove, but I don't know how many of the posts were saved...
I wrote about creating the site here: https://discontents.com.au/local-heroes/index.html #GLAM #archives #crowdSourcing
#EatonFire #PalisadesFire #California #FireContamination #Crowdsourcing
From AP.com: In fight over insurance, neighbors crowdsource LA fire contamination data
A PDF version of The Collective Wisdom Handbook: Perspectives on Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage is available from the British Library’s Research Repository: https://doi.org/10.23636/jm0p-yt17
The 'open peer review' version is also still online! https://britishlibrary.pubpub.org/
National Library of Wales: Crowdsourced data enriching Welsh language resources. “The National Library of Wales has been working hard in this space too, crowdsourcing Welsh names for historic sites, improving Wikipedia articles about Welsh places and recording sound clips of local people pronouncing their place names. The Library has made all this data available via Wikidata, a sister project […]
Will try to find time to write this up into a blog post, but was asked a question in the comments about #CrowdSourcing the transcription and correction of historic statutes:
https://statutes.org.uk/site/new-year-new-social-media/#comment-6290
TLDR: #Wikisource is the best place to do it.
How Democracies Die - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Brainstorming toward a new course for undergraduate non-specialists
What would you put on the syllabus?
Looking for specific readings and resources.
In the nearly 4 years since we shared it, how have you used the Collective Wisdom Handbook?
https://britishlibrary.pubpub.org/
We'd love to know! https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/how-have-you-used-the-collective-wisdom-handbook/
Greg Cocks 
