My Lightning Talk at the 2nd #DARIAbeyondEurope workshop held at the U.S. Library of Congress

1. The Yin-Yang Epigenesis of the Long-tail
of the Scale-free Social Network of
#CitizenScience and Power-Curve
Bending Emergent Growth of the
#CitizenScientist
• A Lightning Talk at the 2nd
#DARIAHbeyondEurope workshop
• Presented by Jim Salmons on behalf of
myself, Timlynn Babitsky & our
#CitizenScience & #CitizenHistory projects,
FactMiners and The Softalk Apple Project

2. Goals of this talk…
• To put in context the relationship of two familiar
terms; #CitizenScience and #CitizenScientist
• To briefly review the dynamics of scale-free
social networks as they contribute to the
emergence of #CitizenScientists
• To begin a conversation on ways to adapt our
#DigitalHumanities, #eResearch, & #eScholarship
projects and platforms to “bend the Power
Curve” of #CitizenScience

3. The Long-tail of #CitizenScience
#Crowdsourcing #CitizenScientist
The Power Law of Role-based Participation in
a Scale-free Social Network
The Challenge for #DigitalHumanities
researchers is to understand and
"bend this curve" in support of the
emergence of #CitizenScientists.
Dude, this slide will really tie
the talk together…

4. The Long-tail of #CitizenScience
#Crowdsourcing #CitizenScientist
The Power Law of Role-based Participation in
a Scale-free Social Network
The Challenge for #DigitalHumanities
researchers is to understand and
"bend this curve" in support of the
emergence of #CitizenScientists.

5. A scale-free network is
a network whose degree
distribution follows
a power law.
http://barabasi.com/book/linked
A scale-free network is
a network whose degree
distribution follows
a power law.
http://barabasi.com/book/linked

6. The Long-tail of #CitizenScience
#Crowdsourcing #CitizenScientist
The Power Law of Role-based Participation in
a Scale-free Social Network
The Challenge for #DigitalHumanities
researchers is to understand and
"bend this curve" in support of the
emergence of #CitizenScientists.
Ok? But how do we get
to this “Yin-Yang”
Epigenesis?

7. The Long-tail of #CitizenScience
#Crowdsourcing #CitizenScientist
The Power Law of Role-based Participation in
a Scale-free Social Network
The Challenge for #DigitalHumanities
researchers is to understand and
"bend this curve" in support of the
emergence of #CitizenScientists.
T1 T2
Ok? But how do we get
to this “Yin-Yang”
Epigenesis?
“Yin”

8. The Long-tail of #CitizenScience
#Crowdsourcing #CitizenScientist
The Power Law of Role-based Participation in
a Scale-free Social Network
The Challenge for #DigitalHumanities
researchers is to understand and
"bend this curve" in support of the
emergence of #CitizenScientists.
T2 T1
Ok? But how do we get
to this “Yin-Yang”
Epigenesis?
“Yang”

9. The Long-tail of #CitizenScience
#Crowdsourcing #CitizenScientist
The Power Law of Role-based Participation in
a Scale-free Social Network
The Challenge for #DigitalHumanities
researchers is to understand and
"bend this curve" in support of the
emergence of #CitizenScientists.
T[1,2,1,2…] T[2,1,2,1…]
Ok? But how do we get
to this “Yin-Yang”
Epigenesis?
“Yin-Yang”

10. The Long-tail of #CitizenScience
#Crowdsourcing #CitizenScientist
The Power Law of Role-based Participation in
a Scale-free Social Network
The Challenge for #DigitalHumanities
researchers is to understand and
"bend this curve" in support of the
emergence of #CitizenScientists.
T[1,2,1,2…] T[2,1,2,1…]
Cool! So my 2-cylinder
role-participation “engine”
can bend the curve! Ι
“Yin-Yang”

11. Closing thoughts…& a beginning
• The Yin-yang Epigenesis model of #CitizenScience
social networks provides inspiration to envision new
ways to welcome and nurture the “new kids on the
block” of #CitizenScientists
• Ageism, outsourcing, and automation will disrupt the
global labor market… and shift the demographics of
skills & experience that “bubble up” from the Crowd
• What ways might you, your research, and your
institutions take advantage of this #SocialMachine?

12. The Yin-Yang Epigenesis of the Long-tail
of the Scale-free Social Network of
#CitizenScience And Power-Curve
Bending Emergent Growth of the
#CitizenScientist
• A Lightning Talk at the 2nd
#DARIAHbeyondEurope workshop
• Presented by Jim Salmons on behalf of
myself, Timlynn Babitsky & our
#CitizenScience & #CitizenHistory projects,
FactMiners and The Softalk Apple Project
We thank you.
Now let the ideas flow… :D :D