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“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] | *[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.” | ||
“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] | ||
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*[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 ]<br> | *[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]) | ||
“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:// | *[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:// | *[http://www.notesfromnature.org/ Notes from Nature] <br>Notes from Nature is a digitization project allowing citizen scientists to transcribe museum records from one of several collections. | ||
“The Specify Software Project offers Specify 6 and allied applications for museum and herbarium research data processing. Specify 6 handles specimen information for computerizing collection holdings, for tracking specimen and tissue management transactions, and for mobilizing species occurrence data to the Internet.” | *[http://specifysoftware.org/ Specify] <br>“The Specify Software Project offers Specify 6 and allied applications for museum and herbarium research data processing. Specify 6 handles specimen information for computerizing collection holdings, for tracking specimen and tissue management transactions, and for mobilizing species occurrence data to the Internet.” | ||
* [http://symbiota.org/ Symbiota]<br>“The Symbiota Software Project is working towards building a library of webtools to aid biologists in establishing specimen based virtual floras and faunas… The central premise of this open source software project is that through a partnership between software engines and the scientific community, higher quality and more publicly useful biodiversity portals can be built.”<br> | * [http://symbiota.org/ Symbiota]<br>“The Symbiota Software Project is working towards building a library of webtools to aid biologists in establishing specimen based virtual floras and faunas… The central premise of this open source software project is that through a partnership between software engines and the scientific community, higher quality and more publicly useful biodiversity portals can be built.”<br> | ||