Do you love #cooking and #VintageCookbooks ? The #LibraryofCongress has a project with your name on it!
Come join the ranks of those transcribing LoC's 18th-century Cookbooks:
https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/cookbooks/
#transcription #crowdsourcing #history #18thcentury #library #archives
It looks like we passed another milestone on #FromThePage last week! #crowdsourcing #transcription
How can you live blog a public conference session without going crazy? By crowdsourcing your event recording!
#LiveBlogging #tip #crowdsourcing #meetings #events #eventprofs
A (slightly edited) interview "Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing" by JT Long in Smart Meetings Magazine.
#meetings #EventDesign #interview #SmartMeetings #crowdsourcing #eventprofs
Are you a validator or a validation trainee, or someone who is curious about validating data and #mappingforpeace?
Join our last #ValidationFriday Mappy Hour for the year this Friday, 5 December! 🤩
📅 5 December
⏲️ 10:00 UTC | 11:00 CET | 18:00 SG
📍OSMCal with room link* is here 👇🏼
https://osmcal.org/event/4169/
*sign in with your OSM account and click Attend so we can send the invite
See you there! 💙
#UNMappers #UNMaps #OpenStreetMap #mappyhour #volunteering #crowdsourcing #mapping
How to use sticky notes to crowdsource sessions and level of interest dot voting to choose the sessions your attendees need & want
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/09/dot-voting
#meetings #EventDesign #GroupWork #crowdsourcing #SessionSelection #DotVoting #PeerConference #unconference #eventprofs
NASA: New Way You Can Discover Asteroids. “Want to discover an asteroid, but don’t have your own telescope? Don’t worry! NASA’s International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) team has just introduced a new online project on the Zooniverse platform where you can help astronomers identify new asteroids.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/30/nasa-new-way-you-can-discover-asteroids/
46,000 Knitted Mice Donated to Rescue Cats Setting Guinness World Record for Crafting Community
IEEE Spectrum: TraffickCam Uses Computer Vision to Counter Human Trafficking . “Abby Stylianou built an app that asks its users to upload photos of hotel rooms they stay in when they travel. It may seem like a simple act, but the resulting database of hotel room images helps Stylianou and her colleagues assist victims of human trafficking.”
Side note: earlier in the interview Ongweso Jr mentions tech writers mistaking Uber (and AirBnB, etc) for a brave new "sharing economy", where apps facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges among citizens, to unlock the economic value of underused assets. Remember that old chestnut?
Called it. Back in 2015;
Intriguingly this article seems to have been removed from TDB. Maybe a good candidate for a repost on the new Ghost-based Disintermedia.net.nz?
Library of Congress: Putting the American Revolution in Context Through Transcription. “What do patriotic songs, society women’s diaries, and nautical maps have in common? All give context to life in America before, during, and after the Revolutionary War – and you’re invited to transcribe them all with the By the People volunteer transcription program in commemoration of the 250th […]
In this issue of "Dear Adrian" I answer the question: Is there a way to crowdsource a conference program before an event?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/dear-adrian/2013/01/crowdsource-conference-program
Meta prepara expansão global das “Notas da Comunidade” e pede ajuda ao Conselho de Supervisão
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t74479-meta-prepara-expansao-global-das-notas-da-comunidade-e-pede-ajuda-ao-conselho-de-supervisao
#algoritmo #crowdsourcing #desinformacao #digital #facebook #instagram #Meta #mundo #sem #twitter #Zuckerberg
From June to September 2025, UN Mappers mapped 8,500 km of waterways 🌊 and 1,600 km² of farmland 🌱 in #OpenStreetMap. The generated data is now being used to develop a new master plan for agriculture along the Senegal River in Mauritania. 🇲🇷 🗺
Read more 👉 https://tinyurl.com/UNMappersxFAOmappinginMR
Direct link: https://www.fao.org/geospatial/news/news-detail/u.n.-mappers-volunteers-added-8-500-km-of-waterways-and-1-600-km--of-farmland-to-openstreetmap-in-mauritania/en
📸 Photo: FAO/Fabien Lezeau
#UNMaps #FAO #opendata #openmapping #volunteering #UNvolunteers #UNvolunteering #crowdsourcing #crowdmapping #foodsecurity
[#veille] Lancement du projet d'indexation collaboratif « Hommes et femmes de la mine » sur #Girophares - Archives nationales
"Ce projet propose d’explorer une source méconnue : près d'un million de fiches individuelles tenues par la Caisse de retraite du régime minier, sous tutelle du ministère du Travail"
➡️ https://girophares.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/hommes-et-femmes-de-la-mine
#histoiresociale #crowdsourcing #mineur #Nord #mineurs #histoire #19esiecle #20esiecle #archivesnumérisées #archives #history
Boing Boing: This site captures laptop sticker collections before they disappear. “The site captures laptop stickers spotted in coffee shops, submitted by travelers, and photographed before the hardware inevitably becomes obsolete.”
Combining Remote Sensing With Local Knowledge Is Vital For Understanding Forest Change In West Africa
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-23133-5 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #tropical #forest #Africa #satellite #vegetation #ontheground #localobservations #WestAfrica #community #crowdsourcing #Landsat #spatialanalysis #household #surveys #localknowledge #integration #forestcover #deforestration #regrowth #convergence #limitations #imagery #spatiotemporal #Togo #Benin #Nigeria #Cameroon
The Guardian: British Asian families urged to share stories of ‘greatest generation’ who fought for Britain. “British Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for ‘future generations’ as data reveals half the British public don’t know that Indian members of the armed forces served in the second world war.”
2 News Nevada: Our Nevada Stories invites residents to share personal histories for statewide archive. “The initiative will create the first statewide oral history archive, preserving stories from people across Nevada as part of an audio time capsule featuring multiple generations and perspectives.”
Google Blog: Listen to the Brazilian rainforests and help contribute to AI research. “Today, we’re launching Forest Listeners, a new online AI experiment from Google Arts & Culture and Google DeepMind, developed in collaboration with our team at WildMon. The project invites people everywhere to help scientists by listening for the calls of hidden species in the rainforests of Brazil.”
