[open-bibliography] 'Art Meets Astrophysics': Galaxy Zoo and Citizen Science - does this extend to Bibliography?

Fri Oct 1 14:17:31 UTC 2010

Thank you for this Peter! Very interesting. I only wish the Public
Catalogue Foundation would use an open license for (at least some of)
their data. I wrote to them about this several years ago, but there
was no response. Seems to be an especially pertinent issue given that
they are expecting the public to contribute to their data – and surely
the public should be at least permitted to reuse portions of the data
contributed by the public?

Does anyone have a contact at the PCF?

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> At the risk of too much cross-posting, here is an example of citizen
> cataloguing
>
> Some of us in #jiscopenbib have floated the idea with JISC and others of
> citizien bibliographer and bibliography camps. If art can be catalogued in
> this way then so can books, journals etc.
>
> P.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ------
>
>
>
> While the immediate context is a specific project in the cataloguing of oil
> paintings, the model of public engagement and research which this project
> brings to bear on its task has much wider implications for research across
> the Arts & Humanities, and across Colleges. Specifically, it is relevant to
> a number of themes and ambitions which we have already identified through
> the Arts Lab research mapping project, and it can be applied to most of the
> emerging themes highlighted by the AHRC.
>
>
>
> Galaxy Zoo is the most high profile and developed example of the methodology
> of Citizen Science and there is much to learn from it and from its
> application in the ‘Your Paintings’ project. Information on Galaxy Zoo can
> be found at http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
>
> For further information on the philosophy and methodology of ‘citizen
> science’ and the Citizen Science Alliance, however, please check out
> http://citizensciencealliance.org/philosophy.html.
>
>
>
> In this context, I hope the ‘Art meets Astrophysics’ seminar will be of
> interest to you.
>
>
>
> Professor John Caughie
> Director, Arts Lab
> College of Arts
>
> http://www.gla.ac.uk/artslab/
>
>
>
> Email: john.caughie at glasgow.ac.uk
> Tel.: 0141 330 7383
>
>
>
> P.A.:  Anna Rosenfeldt
> Email: anna.rosenfeldt at glasgow.ac.uk
> Tel.: 0141 330 7382
>
> ________________________________
>
>
>
> You are cordially invited to attend the first seminar of the new Arts Lab &
> HATII Seminar Series: "New Directions in Digital Humanities":
>
>
>
> (1) ART MEETS ASTROPHYSICS
> Applying the Galaxy Zoo model of public engagement to the cataloguing of the
> nation’s oil paintings
>
>
>
> 7 October 2010 5.15pm
>
> Main Lecture Theatre - Sir Alexander Stone Building
> 16 University Gardens, Glasgow
>
> The Public Catalogue Foundation has been collecting information on the
> 200,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK. Before the Your
> Paintings database is put online to the public by the BBC it needs to be
> made fully searchable by tagging with concepts such as subject, style and
> date.
>
> The enormous task of (reliably and accurately) describing the pictorial
> content of 200,000 paintings requires a revolutionary new approach ... that
> developed by Galaxy Zoo to analyse the structures of galaxies. Galaxy Zoo 2,
> for example, attracted 250,000 amateur participants who made 60 million
> classifications of 250,000 galaxies in 14 months, which, with the
> application of clever statistical algorithms, produced results as accurate
> as professional astronomers would have achieved.
>
> Speakers:
> Andrew Greg
> Director, National Inventory Research Project, History of Art, University of
> Glasgow
> Andrew.Greg at glasgow.ac.uk
>
> Dr Arfon Smith
> Galaxy Zoo Technical Lead, Oxford Astrophysics, University of Oxford
> Arfon.Smith at astro.ox.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
>
> Anna Rosenfeldt
> PA to the Director of Arts Lab
>
> Phone: +44 (0)141 330 7382
> Email: anna.rosenfeldt at glasgow.ac.uk
> Web: www.gla.ac.uk/artslab/
>
> University of Glasgow
> 16 University Gardens
> Glasgow G12 8QL
>
> The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
>
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