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Bringing Citizen Scientists and Historians Together
Fiona Romeo and Lucinda Blaser, National Maritime Museum, United Kingdom
http://www.oldweather.org | http://www.solarstormwatch.com
Abstract
This paper outlines how citizen science projects Solar Stormwatch and Old Weather play to the potentially different motivations of science and history enthusiasts. It draws on informal feedback from the forums and other social channels but also references well-documented crowdsourcing projects Galaxy Zoo and the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. It concludes with recommendations for attracting both lightweight contributions and sustained collaboration in online volunteering projects.
Keywords: citizen science, crowdsourcing, digitisation, communities, science, history
Bringing citizen scientists and historians together
The National Maritime Museum invited the Naval-History.net community to join the Zooniverse citizen science platform to help extract meteorological data from historic ship logs. The data generated via the Old Weather website will be used by scientists at the Met Office to build better climate models.