Just sent my proposal to #NLnet's #ngi0commons to create a #Luanti #game to help with #Mozilla #CommonVoice clips validation.

The deadline is end of the current month. They should reply about the first round in the beginning August. And I should get a reply about the second round mid September.

It's about 300 hours of work, in the worst case. If things go smooth, I should have minimal working version for the White Cane Safety day which is on 15th October. And by end of the November, the first version is ready.

And all these are given that NLnet will give me the funding seeing my project valuable, and also not minding working with someone based in #Iran...

Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes

https://www.humanqr.com/news/qr-code-not-scanning-well-try-to-help/

How do you crowdsource a conference program in real time? I explain, using the 2017 Haute Dokimazo #unconference in Austin, TX as an example.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/08/crowdsource-conference-program-2

A few minutes for Myanmar.
A few minutes to make a difference.

Join us in supporting the #OpenStreetMap community in Myanmar (myOSM) and Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific to map affected areas from the #MyanmarEarthquake2025.

Map now https://bit.ly/mapmmearthquake

Start der Erschließung von Werkstammrollen des Krupp-Archivs

https://www.compgen.de/2025/04/start-der-erschliessung-von-werkstammrollen-des-krupp-archivs/

Saw an article today about the Virtual War Memorial and remembered that way back in 2008 at the National Archives we hacked together Google Maps and Tumblr to enable people to upload images and stories about WWI service people. In the 6 months following the site's launch there were more than 1,000 of these 'scrapbook' posts.

The NAA later rebuilt the site, and a couple of years ago they completely removed it. You can find bits on the Internet Archive & Trove, but I don't know how many of the posts were saved...

I wrote about creating the site here: https://discontents.com.au/local-heroes/index.html #GLAM #archives #crowdSourcing

Experts Challenge Validity and Ethics of Crowdsourced AI Benchmarks Like LMArena (Chatbot Arena)

#AI #AIBenchmarks #AIModels #LMArena #ChatbotArena #AIethics #LLMs #AIEvaluation #Crowdsourcing #GenAI

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/22/experts-challenge-validity-and-ethics-of-crowdsourced-ai-benchmarks-like-lmarena-chatbot-arena-xcxwbn/

UC Davis: Can Citizen Science Be Trusted? New Study of Birds Shows It Can. “In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice March 28, researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that citizen science data from iNaturalist and eBird can reliably capture known seasonal patterns of bird migration in Northern California and Nevada — from year-round residents such […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/21/uc-davis-can-citizen-science-be-trusted-new-study-of-birds-shows-it-can/

How can you live blog a public conference session without going crazy? By crowdsourcing your event recording!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2011/06/tip-how-to-live-blog-a-public-conference-session-without-going-crazy

#AfricanAmerican #cemeteries #Virginia #crowdsourcing #BlackHistory #genealogy

'Generations of African Americans are buried across the Shenandoah Valley, but many of their final resting places remain unmarked or undocumented. In response, the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project is launching a public database to identify and preserve these burial sites.'

https://www.whsv.com/2025/04/19/its-so-many-us-we-dont-know-where-we-are-buried-organization-creates-database-unmarked-missing-african-american-graves/

Brandt Krueger interviews me about the secrets behind conference engagement, how to get your audience tuned in and engaged, and much more

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/interviews/2017/07/the-secrets-behind-conference-engagement

#birds #ornithology #crowdsourcing #CitizenScience

'In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice March 28, researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that citizen science data from iNaturalist and eBird can reliably capture known seasonal patterns of bird migration in Northern California and Nevada — from year-round residents such as California Scrub-Jays, to transient migrants such as the Western Tanager and the Pectoral Sandpiper'

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/can-citizen-science-be-trusted-new-study-birds-shows-it-can

Wyoming Public Radio: ‘We have to have our voices heard’: A Casper group is building a queer history archive. “Locals brought photos, letters, journals and artwork from queer Casperites of the distant past and the present. Then, Amber and Mallory Pollock, the executive director of Casper Pride, catalogued and uploaded digital copies of the memorabilia to the nascent website. The idea was […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/15/we-have-to-have-our-voices-heard-a-casper-group-is-building-a-queer-history-archive-wyoming-public-radio/

https://www.europesays.com/1942249/ How AI Labs Are Tapping Contest Data To Build Smarter Models #AI #Codewars #ContestData #Creativity #crowdsourcing #Data #HumanIntelligence #LLMTraining #ProblemSolving #Topcoder #Wazoku

A PDF version of The Collective Wisdom Handbook: Perspectives on Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage is available from the British Library’s Research Repository: https://doi.org/10.23636/jm0p-yt17

The 'open peer review' version is also still online! https://britishlibrary.pubpub.org/

Will try to find time to write this up into a blog post, but was asked a question in the comments about #CrowdSourcing the transcription and correction of historic statutes:

https://statutes.org.uk/site/new-year-new-social-media/#comment-6290

TLDR: #Wikisource is the best place to do it.

How Democracies Die - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Brainstorming toward a new course for undergraduate non-specialists

What would you put on the syllabus?

Looking for specific readings and resources.

#Armenia #CulturalHeritage #photography #crowdsourcing

'Massachusetts-based Project Save, the world’s largest-known archive of Armenian photographic history, marks its 50th anniversary this spring with a bold new expansion—and a renewed global call to action.'

https://horizonweekly.ca/en/armenian-photo-archive-project-save-makes-urgent-call-to-preserve-community-histories/

In the nearly 4 years since we shared it, how have you used the Collective Wisdom Handbook?

https://britishlibrary.pubpub.org/

We'd love to know! https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/how-have-you-used-the-collective-wisdom-handbook/

"A lot of people tell themselves that they ‘need to do something’ but don’t how to start. I felt that way at first, too.

A community-driven model is an incredible opportunity to get those people involved. It shows that we can achieve a lot if we band together, which is an antidote to the doomerism of our time."

#rewilding #youtube #nature #community #crowdsourcing #conservation #ecology

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-group-using-youtube-to-rewild-the-planet/