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*[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] | *[http://citizensort.org CitizenSort]<br>“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.” | |||
*[http://citsci.org/ CitSci.org]<br>“CitSci.org supports your research by providing tools and resources that allow you to customize your scientific procedure - all in one location on the internet. As your partner in research, CitSci.org provides tools for the entire research process including: creating new projects, managing project members, building custom data sheets, analyzing collected data, and gathering participant feedback.” | *[http://citsci.org/ CitSci.org]<br>“CitSci.org supports your research by providing tools and resources that allow you to customize your scientific procedure - all in one location on the internet. As your partner in research, CitSci.org provides tools for the entire research process including: creating new projects, managing project members, building custom data sheets, analyzing collected data, and gathering participant feedback.” | ||
*[http://www.discoverlife.org DiscoverLife] | *[http://www.discoverlife.org DiscoverLife]<br>Provides “free on-line tools to identify species, teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia of life with 1,267,805 species pages and 623,990 maps.” | ||
Provides “free on-line tools to identify species, teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia of life with 1,267,805 species pages and 623,990 maps.” | |||
*[http://eol.org Encyclopedia of Life]<br>Mission: “To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.” | *[http://eol.org Encyclopedia of Life]<br>Mission: “To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.” | ||
*[http://fromthepage.com/ FromThePage | *[http://fromthepage.com/ FromThePage]<br>“FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.” (Example from [http://fromthepage.bpoc.org herpetology field notes]) | ||
*[http://helpingscience.org/ HelpingScience] <br>“This is a website for processing herbarium specimen sheets using citizen science. (Currently conducting a closed beta testing before official release).” | *[http://helpingscience.org/ HelpingScience]<br>“This is a website for processing herbarium specimen sheets using citizen science. (Currently conducting a closed beta testing before official release).” | ||
*[http://www.lifemapper.org/ Lifemapper] <br>Lifemapper “uses all online geospatial species occurrence data to create distribution maps and, notably, goes one step further to predict where an individual species could exist based on where it is documented to live. Lifemapper does this by combining species occurrence data with global climate, terrain and land cover information, to identify environmental correlates of species ranges.” | *[http://www.lifemapper.org/ Lifemapper] <br>Lifemapper “uses all online geospatial species occurrence data to create distribution maps and, notably, goes one step further to predict where an individual species could exist based on where it is documented to live. Lifemapper does this by combining species occurrence data with global climate, terrain and land cover information, to identify environmental correlates of species ranges.” | ||