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“The [http://www.ala.org.au/ Atlas of Living Australia], in collaboration with the [http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/ Australian Museum], developed the Biodiversity Volunteer Portal to harness the power of online volunteers (also known as crowdsourcing) to digitise biodiversity data that is locked up in biodiversity collections, field notebooks and survey sheets.” | “The [http://www.ala.org.au/ Atlas of Living Australia], in collaboration with the [http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/ Australian Museum], developed the Biodiversity Volunteer Portal to harness the power of online volunteers (also known as crowdsourcing) to digitise biodiversity data that is locked up in biodiversity collections, field notebooks and survey sheets.” | ||
*[http://www.bugguide.net BugGuide]<br>Collects “photographs of bugs from the United States and Canada for identification and research. We summarize our findings in guide pages for each order, family, genus, and species. More than just a clearinghouse for information, this site helps expand on the natural histories of subjects. By capturing the place and time that submitted images were taken, they are creating a virtual collection that helps define where and when things might be found.”<br> | *[http://www.bugguide.net BugGuide]<br>Collects “photographs of bugs from the United States and Canada for identification and research. We summarize our findings in guide pages for each order, family, genus, and species. More than just a clearinghouse for information, this site helps expand on the natural histories of subjects. By capturing the place and time that submitted images were taken, they are creating a virtual collection that helps define where and when things might be found.”<br> | ||
*[http://citizensort.org CitizenSort] | |||
“Citizen Sort is a website that contains tools and games to classify various species of insects, animals, and plants. Our motivation for creating this website is based upon two goals. The first is to help biologists and ecologists with scientific classification tasks. The second is to help information scientists and human-computer interaction researchers evaluate the role of motivation in citizen science.” | “Citizen Sort is a website that contains tools and games to classify various species of insects, animals, and plants. Our motivation for creating this website is based upon two goals. The first is to help biologists and ecologists with scientific classification tasks. The second is to help information scientists and human-computer interaction researchers evaluate the role of motivation in citizen science.” | ||