This is a presentation I gave at the WALIS Crowd sourcing eent in Perth at the ARRC on the 6th April, 2011.

1. GAIA RESOURCES Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science and Climatewatch Piers Higgs Gaia Resources Presented at ARRC, 6th April 2011

3. Citizen Science

4. Climatewatch & the BDRS

5. What can we learn

7. CROWDSOURCING What is Crowdsourcing? Oxford English Dictionary: “the practice whereby an organisation enlists a number of freelancers, paid or unpaid, to work on a specific task or problem” Wikipedia: “The act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a “crowd”), through an open call”

9. Volunteer readers were assigned books, and then created quotation slips from them

11. 7,000+ people, 420,000+ surveys and over 7.1 million bird records

14. A way to engage with people?

15. A source of free data?

16. A way to save money?

17. A way to get money?

18. An easy way to research a presentation?Yes!

19. CROWDSOURCING What models of Crowdsourcing are used? Crowdsourcing Crowdfunding Crowdvoting Crowdcreation Crowd wisdom

20. CROWDSOURCING Spatial Crowdsourcing?

21. CROWDSOURCING Spatial Crowdsourcing?

22. CROWDSOURCING Spatial Crowdsourcing?

23. CROWDSOURCING Spatial Crowdsourcing?

24. CROWDSOURCING What is Crowdsourcing doing? Crowdsourcing Design tasks Tune Algorithm Provide Data Citizen Science

25. CROWDSOURCING What is Citizen Science? ?

26. CROWDSOURCING What is Citizen Science? Oxford English Dictionary: No exact results found for “citizen science” in the dictionary. Wikipedia: “a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation.”

28. Mission:

29. “To develop an authoritative, freely accessible distributed and federated biodiversity data management system”

30. Working in a range of areas to deliver this, all around the ALA web sitewww.ala.org.au

31. CROWDSOURCING What’s our experience?

35. CROWDSOURCING The BDRS in action Decide on Project fields and scope Build a form in the BDRS Publish it to the site Register with the site Choose a Project Contribute a sighting Log into the site Review a Project Download Data

36. CROWDSOURCING The BDRS in action Decide on Project fields and scope Build a form in the BDRS Publish it to the site

38. CROWDSOURCING The BDRS in action

39. CROWDSOURCING The BDRS in action Log into the site Review a Project Download Data

45. Who owns a recordthat is entered to acitizen science project?

47. In the US: 1,500 million hours a month online doing one of these two things25% of total internet use

49. Use an experience system

50. Multiple long & short term aims

51. Reward effort

52. Rapid feedback

53. Uncertainty

54. Windows of enhanced attention

55. Other peoplehttp://tinyurl.com/28mvx7v