[CAnet - news] Impact of Citizen Science on academic research
"Bill St. Arnaud" <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:01:44 -0400
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Of course these same tools also allow us to move power hungry laboratory and computer equipment off of our campuses to more environmentally friendly zero carbon renewable energy sites - accessible to all. From a posting on Dewayne Hendricks list. BSA] http://www.nypost.com/seven/08242008/postopinion/postopbooks/crowdsourcing_1 25790.htm "CROWDSOURCING" Wired writer Jeff Howe's "Crowdsourcing" thesis is this: the "experts" - whether they're top-tier physicists or movie-studio heads - don't have a monopoly on the creation or distribution of information anymore. The crowd, through technology that's been available for little more than a decade, has broken that monopoly, transforming everything from entertainment to cancer research. . Howe introduces this change with an amusing story about birdwatchers. Until the Internet age, it was the experts who decided whether a bird is extinct or not - and those experts still think they do. A few years ago, the official scientific birdwatchers decided, after much study, that an extinct bird in Mexico was actually not extinct. But the amateur birdwatchers had long beaten them to this discovery with their own online literature. "The birdwatchers were like, 'That's interesting, but we did that a few years ago,' " one professional ornithologist told Howe. . Before the 19th century, it was amateurs - often, but not always, from the aristocracy - who made scientific discoveries, writing to each other to share knowledge through informal societies like "the Invisible College," which later became the Royal Society. But by the 1800s, universities and their increasingly specialized graduates were jealous of the competition posed by amateurs, and started to shut them out - successfully, until recently, when amateurs in fields ranging from organic chemistry to investigative journalism could once again fairly compete with the pros. . In science, an Italian homemaker with a heretofore unused organic chemistry degree can put her talents to use after she puts her kids to bed, helping companies like Procter and Gamble solve problems their own scientists couldn't solve through a venture called InnoCentive. Participating companies pay successful problem-solvers tens of thousands of dollars for their breakthroughs. Video-renter Netflix has a $1 million reward on offer for anyone who can increase a component of its customer-service software by 10 percent. ------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe send e-mail to [email protected] These news items and comments are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the CANARIE board or management. ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C90699.948C37B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:x=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" = xmlns:p=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" = xmlns:a=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" = xmlns:dt=3D"uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" = xmlns:s=3D"uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" = xmlns:rs=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z=3D"#RowsetSchema" = xmlns:b=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" = xmlns:ss=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" = xmlns:c=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" = xmlns:odc=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" = xmlns:oa=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" = xmlns:html=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" = xmlns:q=3D"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:D=3D"DAV:" = xmlns:x2=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" = xmlns:ois=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" = xmlns:dir=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" = xmlns:ds=3D"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" = xmlns:dsp=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" = xmlns:udc=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" = xmlns:xsd=3D"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" = xmlns:sub=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/"= xmlns:ec=3D"http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" = xmlns:sp=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" = xmlns:sps=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" = xmlns:xsi=3D"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" = xmlns:udcxf=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" = xmlns:wf=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" = xmlns:mver=3D"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006= " xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns:mrels=3D"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationshi= ps" = xmlns:ex12t=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types"= = xmlns:ex12m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messag= es" xmlns:Z=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st=3D"" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; 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font-weight:bold;} span.Heading3Char {mso-style-name:"Heading 3 Char"; mso-style-priority:9; mso-style-link:"Heading 3"; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; font-weight:bold;} span.update {mso-style-name:update;} span.PlainTextChar {mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Plain Text"; font-family:Consolas;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple> <div class=3DSection1> <p class=3DMsoPlainText>For more information on this item please visit = my blog at <o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><a = href=3D"http://green-broadband.blogspot.com/">http://green-broadband.blog= spot.com/</a> or <a = href=3D"http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com">http://billstarnaud.blogspot.co= m</a><o:p></o:p></p> <p = class=3DMsoPlainText>-------------------------------------------<o:p></o:= p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [Good article on the = impact of citizen science on academic research. Cyber-infrastructure will not only = impact the way we do science at universities but with the advent of clouds, = grids, SOA, remote instrumentation and Web 2.0 I believe we are entering a new = renaissance era where amateur scientists can have access to the same tools and = techniques used by professional researchers. Of course these same tools also allow us to = move power hungry laboratory and computer equipment off of our campuses to = more environmentally friendly zero carbon renewable energy sites – = accessible to all. From a posting on Dewayne Hendricks list. = BSA]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></= p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.nypost.com/seven/08= 242008/postopinion/postopbooks/crowdsourcing_125790.htm <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></= p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"CROWDSOURCING"<o:p>= </o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wired writer Jeff Howe's "Crowdsourcing" thesis is this: the "experts" - = whether they're top-tier physicists or movie-studio heads - don't have a = monopoly on the creation or distribution of information anymore. The crowd, through technology that's been available for little more than a decade, has = broken that monopoly, transforming everything from entertainment to cancer = research.</span></b><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Howe introduces this change = with an amusing story about birdwatchers. Until the Internet age, it was the = experts who decided whether a bird is extinct or not - and those experts still = think they do. A few years ago, the official scientific birdwatchers decided, = after much study, that an extinct bird in Mexico was actually not = extinct.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>But the amateur birdwatchers = had long beaten them to this discovery with their own online literature. = "The birdwatchers were like, 'That's interesting, but we did that a few years = ago,' " one professional ornithologist told Howe.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Before the 19th century, it = was amateurs - often, but not always, from the aristocracy - who made = scientific discoveries, writing to each other to share knowledge through informal societies like "the Invisible College," which later became the = Royal Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>But by the 1800s, = universities and their increasingly specialized graduates were jealous of the competition = posed by amateurs, and started to shut them out - successfully, until = recently, when amateurs in fields ranging from organic chemistry to investigative = journalism could once again fairly compete with the pros.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In science, an Italian = homemaker with a heretofore unused organic chemistry degree can put her talents to use = after she puts her kids to bed, helping companies like Procter and Gamble = solve problems their own scientists couldn't solve through a venture called InnoCentive. Participating companies pay successful problem-solvers tens = of thousands of dollars for their breakthroughs. Video-renter Netflix has a = $1 million reward on offer for anyone who can increase a component of its customer-service software by 10 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-------------= ------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To subscribe or unsubscribe send e-mail to <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><o= :p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>These news items and comments are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the CANARIE board or management.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </= o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C90699.948C37B0-- --===============0754936806== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canarie.ca/mailman/listinfo/news --===============0754936806==--