Kick off workshop for 3-year NASA project on using photographic evidence collected by citizen scientists to measure climate change

2. Citizen science 2.0
NASA-ROSES Project
Digital Earthwatch Workshop
University of New Hampshire
April 23-24, 2009
Fabio Carrera (WPI) – carrera@wpi.edu
Steve Guerin (Redfish) – stephen.guerin@redfish.com

3. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

4. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

5. Crowdsourcing 2.0
• Citizen Science is crowdsourcing

6. Crowdsourcing 2.0
Collect Analyze
Organize

7. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

8. Customize
Gadgets
Widgets

9. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

10. Visualize
Many Eyes
Photosynth

11. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

12. Share
Facebook
Ning

13. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

14. Repeat
Remember the Milk
reCaptcha

15. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

16. Harvest
Flickr
Cornell
G-Phone

17. Objectives
1.Crowdsource 2.0 (multi-prong)
2.Customize (tailor)
3.Visualize (feedback)
4.Share (interact)
5.Repeat (retain)
6.Harvest (effortless)
7.Expand (open source)

18. Expand
Sourceforge
Ushahidi

19. Picturepost Satellite Analyses Earthcaches (groundspeak)
PicturePost
Bird sightings (Cornell Ornithology Lab)
Time series
Alerts
• Ice melted on Sugden Lake, Spence MA (yesterday)
• Buds out in Santa Fe (Wednesday)
• Geese sighted in Swampscott, MA (4/20/09)
•
Budburst
Monitor your buddies

20. The Vision
upload organize
SMS
feedback
contribute
share
repository
correlate analyze
visualize

21. The Vision
SMS
Email

22. Discussion
• Citizen scientist recruitment and registration via web tools and traditional means
• Member retention strategies
• Feedback mechanisms – data visualization and interaction between your organization
and its members
• Collaborative tools – member-to-member interaction and collaboration
• Alphanumeric data vs. visual/photographic/audio data management
• Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
• success stories
• as well as failures
• release our software tools as open-source
• establish an ongoing collaboration with your organizations
• engage with you to produce re-usable web services of direct and immediate use to
you in your organizations.