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  • DZM by DZM admin

    "Citizen Science Goes Meta"

    While it might seem like the citizen science movement is all shiny and
    new, in part because of all the mainstream media attention it has been
    getting lately, in fact, citizen science has been around for a long
    time. Indeed, well before there were the “professional” scientists we
    know today, scientific investigations were conducted by anyone with
    the time and the means.

    The Victorian era was a particularly rich time for both citizen
    involvement in science and public interest in all things scientific
    and technological; this interest was fueled in part by the printing
    press and the rise of the ‘science popularizers.’ The public consumed
    vast quantities of books and magazines, many of which were lavishly
    illustrated. Unfortunately, we don’t know much about who the
    illustrators were. The Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium of
    natural history and botanical libraries, has digitized and cataloged
    millions of these pages dating back to the 1400's. A new Zooniverse
    project called Science Gossip needs your to help identify, classify
    and correlate them. That’s right: Science Gossip wants the help of
    citizen scientists to learn more about citizen scientists...

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  • geoffrey.belknap by geoffrey.belknap scientist

    Very cool!

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