[open-science-dev] Citizen Cyberscience Hackday

Tue Feb 14 14:55:45 UTC 2012

Ups. Same here.

At the other email thread I've told that I would be "at" hackday, but by
this I meant that I'm available online. It would be possible?

Regards.
Nigini.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Lucas Ferreira Mation <
lucasmation at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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