by ginger | Aug 25, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, information extraction, mark2cure, national park services
In our previous post, we asked readers, ‘What is your preferred moniker?’. Here is the response: Mark2Curator: 36% Citizen Scientist: 36% Contributor: 18% “Anything BUT volunpeer”: 10% Although it may seem a little strange that researchers have...
by ginger | Jun 18, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, conference, mark2cure, presentation
A HUGE thanks to all the dads (and EVERYONE) who has been contributing to make a difference for the NGLY1 families. Shipping delays Apologies to international prize and drawing winners who were waiting for their prizes. Most of the international packages that we...
by ginger | Dec 26, 2016 | big data, biocuration, conference, Gene Wiki, poster, presentation, publication, semantic wikipedia, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
I knew it! Last year, I struggled with the year-end post for the Gene Wiki/WikiData (AKA the Gene WikiData) project because the Gene WikiData team was incredibly active. I learned my lesson, and attempted to better track their activity earlier this year with a running...
by Sebastian Burgstaller | Sep 9, 2015 | biocuration, code, community intelligence, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Introduction: Sulab has proven it’s love for Wikipedia by creating the GeneWiki[1]. Wikipedia is primarily a collection of free-text pages which also can contain some structured data in the form of infoboxes. In order to increase the abilities of handling and...
by ginger | Mar 6, 2015 | amt, biocuration, citizen science, collective intelligence, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
[View the story “Researchers amazed by citizen scientists in biocuration effort” on Storify]
by ginger | Aug 29, 2014 | biocuration, BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, research, sulab
The problem of keeping up with scientific literature is not new. In 1986, information scientist, Don R. Swanson, published an article about mining the wealth of knowledge buried in academic literature. In his article, “Undiscovered public knowledge”,...
