[http://dp.la] Rachel Frick, Digital Public Library of America There were some really great conversations this morning and I’m taking a pause to just acknowledge the great ideas that were put up there. There is a question someone brought up, and it is something I was thinking about before coming here: Who owns what? Who owns what part of the process? Who [...]
[https://www.hcii.cmu.edu] Jeff Bigham, HCII, Carnegie Mellon University I come from the perspective of having used crowds as part of building systems for the past few years. We have built system that use crowds and computation to drive robots, to answer tens of thousands of visual questions for blind people, to convert speech to text in three or four seconds for deaf [...]
[https://transcription.si.edu] Meghan Ferriter, Smithsonian Transcription Center I continue to hear issues related to sharing information and that is the one that stands out the most to me, whether that is sharing information on how to do what we are doing already really well, or how to improve, how to accept and receive feedback from our peer community here and elsewhere: “You’re doing that [...]
[https://openideo.com | http://whr.org.np] Ashwin Gopi, New York University I’m here to talk to you about a project that existed three weeks ago, but it has completely changed. A couple of years ago we were on this online platform called OpenIDEO, which is an open innovations platform where the members try to tackle social issues. There was a question asked by the United [...]
[https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bpp] Jessica Zelt, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, North American Bird Phenology Project I work for the US Geological Survey at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and help to manage a citizen science program called the North American Bird Phenology Project. This is a program that was actually one of the first citizen science projects in the United States back in 1881. A [...]
[http://openglam.org] Lieke Ploeger, OpenGLAM I am with the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is an organization working on promoting open data in a variety of fields. I work for one of the working groups for Open Knowledge which is called OpenGLAM, which is what I will be talking about mainly for best practices. Open Knowledge set up these working groups as a way [...]
[http://www.nypl.org/collections/labs] Ben Vershbow, New York Public Library I had trouble distilling this. My challenges have kind of churned and mixed into the conversations we had earlier. I have tried to group them into a few categories and the challenges are around the why. Why are we doing this? There are many answers to that question depending on the project, on the [...]
[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org] Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden, Biodiversity Heritage Library I work at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and was hired there to work on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). BHL is a consortium of natural history museums and botanical garden libraries that come together and digitize their collections and put them up online for open access as part of a [...]
[http://shelleygodwinarchive.org] Neil Fraistat, MITH, University of Maryland I’m here because of a project I direct called the Shelley-Godwin Archive, which consists of the digitized manuscripts of Percy and Mary Shelley, and Mary Shelley’s parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. We received a grant from the NEH to start the project up and the project partners are the New York Public Library, the [...]
[http://www.aurorasaurus.org] Liz MacDonald, NASA, Aurorasaurus I am the founder of a project called Aurorasaurus. I am a scientist, a physicist, and this citizen science project was designed to allow people to get a better idea of when they could see the northern lights. The reason we needed this was because there are no products designed for the public to do this [...]
