[open-science-dev] Citizen Cyberscience Hackday

[Lucas Ferreira Mation]

Dear all,

as I said in the other email tread I have a "challenge" for the hackday.
Using PyBossa to create a Table-Transcription platoform for extracting data
from tables in scanned pages. This would be a general platform, but one use
is to extract historical data on demography, heath and crime in XIX Brazil.

We already worked a little bit on the Berlin-hackfest last year, and also
there has been some development in Brasil. Using all that it is possible
that a working solution could emerge from the hackday.

I saw in the program that the hackdays start friday the 17th in the
aftenoo, is that correct? If so I could participate remotelly in the
hackday.

In any case, let me know if there is interest in developing this in the
HackFest.

regards
Lucas




On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi All
>
> If anyone can make it to London on Saturday 18th Feb the Citizen
> Cyberscience Summit is hosting a hackday
> http://cybersciencesummit.org/35-2/the-hackday/ featuring multiple
> challenges http://cybersciencesummit.org/challenges/ including one
> focused around PyBOSSA which was developed by OKFN folk:
>
> ---------------
> Create your own volunteer thinking project with PyBossa
> http://cybersciencesummit.org/portfolio/create-your-own-volunteer-thinking-project-with-pybossa/
> Develop volunteer thinking projects based on the new open source PyBossa
> platform that the Citizen Cyberscience Centre has developed with the Open
> Knowledge Foundation.Do you have a project where you need human
> collaboration? Humans are very capable of reading handwritting, identifying
> objects in pictures, doing transcriptions, thinking in 3D, collaborating,
> etc. For instance, if we ask a person if he can see a human in a photo it
> will be easy to answer, but it could be complicated for an algorithm.
> ________
>
> Another suggested challenge encourages non-coders to add information on
> citizen cyberscience projects to Data Hub so strong OKFN involvement would
> be fantastic to see!
>
> "How many citizen cyberscientists are there in the world?"* *
> Participants in this challenge will  hunt down and enter relevant data
> about the numbers of citizen cyberscientists participating in various
> projects, in an effort to quantify the level of citizen cyberscience
> worldwide. Data will be stored and visualized using OKFN's DataHub. The
> core challenge of gathering and entering data is suitable for
> participants who are not major league hackers. For participants with
> relevant software skills, the work can extend to developing ways of
> automating data collection from sites that publish citizen cyberscience
> stats regularly (eg BOINCstats).
> ------------
>
> Do you have ideas for further challenges? Send them to the list and we'll
> forward them to the summit team.
>
> You can register for the hackday and the rest of what looks set to be a
> fantastic event here: http://cybersciencesummit.org/register-2/ - drop me
> a line if you're going and especially if you have experience with
> CKAN/DataHub and would be willing to assist with the challenges!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jenny
>
>
>
>
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