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Thank you so much for inviting me, I thought I’d never really attend a science conference again despite being trained as a computational immunologist. I work with Crowdsourcing, is essentially what this conference is about. I’m interested in data, but I’m also interested in people and why and how they get involved in communities and give their time to make things together.
I wanted to talk about some of the underlying mechanisms we use in building crowdsourced apps in the hope that there is some crossover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design[1] and distributed participatory design), refine or carry out the steps of an algorithm (see Human-based computation), or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science).
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This is a definition from Wikipedia which itself is community annotated or crowdsourced
http://www.threadless.com/
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Threadless, crowdsourced clothing company, people submit designs, others say they’ll buy them, when enough people commit they make them and you can buy too
http://maps.google.com
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And for me one of best examples is not this, but it’s much better replacement. This is this area as seen by Google Maps
http://www.bgbm.org/bgbm/
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I found this better map on a leaflet in my hotel room last night
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
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And this is what Open Streetmap, a crowd sourced community can do. Open Streetmap grew out of a university final year project. Steve Coast was at UCL and the Ordinance Survery wanted £100,000 for a license for a map, so he created an alternative
http://maps.google.com
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People can map better than organisations, they can go on foot places vehicles can’t and they’re not restricted by rights
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
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Which means that the quality is amazing
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They have mapping parties and even have high score tables for who maps the most. Every GPS point is attributed to a user
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These are the actual GPS trails for New York
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/
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This is the last year... as you can see Germany has been fairly busy
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crowdsourcing where political boundaries are as the ordinance survey restricts access
Game mechanicsOpenness Linked dataActivity surfacingIdentity/social graph
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For me there are some key mechanisms at work and I try to build as many of them in as possible, I’ll go through them one by one
Game mechanicsLinked dataOpenness Activity surfacingIdentity/social graph
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Game mechanics, learning from play and the games industry
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A couple of fascinating things happened last year
Obama got elected on crowdsourced funding and by saying “we” rather than I, oh and the previous chap wasn’t too popular
Obama for America iPhone app
See nationwide 08 Call Friends total and find our how your call totals compare to leading callers
Oh my god, it’s a high score table... it’s a game of electioneering
“Obama for America just launched an Massively Multiplayer Online Game, and nobody noticed.”>Tom Armitage, infovore
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Tom Armitage said it best, there is a leader board function from multiplayer games built right into the Obama campaign
Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy by Judith Garrard
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We’ve had games in science for a while... the points mean prizes mechanism of grant funding based on citation analysis and journals
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teamstats
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and folding at home, crowdsourced application through and through
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Secondly is openness
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Twitter was open in that it just allowed you 140 characters... any 140 characters
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which allowed The Guardian to make this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carthorse/
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This is another great example of openness, Amanda Rose on the right created this idea of a festival for people who use twitter... she then made it open and asked anyone in the world to create a festival and raise money for a charity called charitywater
http://vimeo.com/charitywater
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it raised $250,000 and they’re now sinking clean drinking water wells in Africa
I don’t really need to tell you about openness... it happens with everything from genomes, sequences, cell lines, mouse strains
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OpenPlatform
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Project I’m proud to be a part of, opening out all The Guardian content we can, data from infographics, and articles all on a search API like PubMed
Weaving The Guardian into the fabric of the internet.>Matt McAlister
Building a content mashup with The Guardian, Delicious, Freebase and App Engine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigsaw/
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opening gambit for what we were trying to achieve, what it actually means is The Guardian is crowdsourcing some new business models in the newspaper industry
Building a content mashup with The Guardian, Delicious, Freebase and App Engine
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We also wanted to show off about linked data possibilities, here’s a fun sort of application
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This was my demo for Open Platform launch, something I’m really proud of... Built in 8 hours
You can find bits of Guardian content you want to help annotate... it shows you the Guardian tags and also shows you what people have tagged that content on Delicious.
You can also do controlled vocabulary tagging with the tag this article box, searching Freebase for tags and then saying if the article is about that tag or just mentions it.
Weaving The Guardian into the fabric of the internet.
Building a content mashup with The Guardian, Delicious, Freebase and App Engine
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by stitching together blocks of lego, I just wrote about 200 lines of code in total
I’m not really a programmer, I make things out of the possibility lego of libraries and apis
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yet built something quite rich
science has linked data, pubmed ids, gene names, mouse strains, cell lines, also has synonym tables
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Last two go together in a way
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we are a herd animal
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We are a herd animal. We are essentially the social ape. We cannot escape our biology and in some ways that’s useful as if it didn’t there would be no social networks.
We respond to influence, we migrate from place to place within digital networks following others.
social proof/influence
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it’s always more tempting to eat at a restaurant with a queue, rather than an empty one
social networks surface activity constantly in newsfeeds and activity streams, we can harness that for science
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this is my twitter stream, my thoughts and what I’m doing, people see what I say do and think and some follow me... like bizarrely a cornish restaurant
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last.fm/lastgraph
and this is the output of a service called last.fm which watches what you play on iTunes, it has an API and Andrew Godwin made this lovely thing which visualizes how your listening changes
Someone you know is helping to map routes around cities based on their personal view of accessibility.
Tell us your story on AccessCity
http://www.acesscity.co.uk/
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AccessCity, project I’m proud to have been involved in. Started at Social Innovation Camp with a team of just 6.
Aim is to build a crowdsourced map of London from an accessibility standpoint which relates to real time user-centric information.
http://www.acesscity.co.uk/
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Geography is all about your personal involvement with a location and this can only be gathered by people not machines and by users not surveyors.
It’s also totally time based as anyone who tries to use Kings Cross station on a Friday night can attest
we’re letting people use accounts they already have and surfacing their activity back to Facebook
http://www.acesscity.co.uk/
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And we’re giving people profiles and soon you’ll be able to follow people so you can see what travel issues they have
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Identity is key
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This is my identity on a travel network called dopplr, you tell it where you go
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and it tells you about coincidences where friends are in the same place as you at the same time
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It’s also becoming a social atlas of places from a human centric point of view, people say where they’ve eaten, stayed and answer questions... and linked data to Flickr and Zagat improve the depth of data
So what can we crowdsource?
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What could work for science
So what can we crowdsource?Identity/activity
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I think a key thing is identity and activity
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You can now build working software in less time than it takes to have the meeting to describe it.>Simon Willison
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ScienceIDgiving science a sense of identity
http://scienceid-demo.appspot.com
so I thought I’d play
why a science ID
Can disambiguate literature
Can reward people for actions, not just publications... hopefully in the future people could be funded through all they do
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PubMed + OpenID + OAuth + APIs + AppEngine (Python)
ScienceIDgiving science a sense of identity
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Biopython Tutorial and Cookbook
Je! Chang, Brad Chapman, Iddo Friedberg, Thomas Hamelryck,Michiel de Hoon, Peter Cock, Tiago Antao
Last Update – 3 April 2009 (Biopython 1.50 beta)
Some lovely person made this
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this is where I’m at after about 8 hours... not there yet, but about quarter the way there... the idea is that people can claim science they did, over time that will make a rich profile and they eventually if you can drive adoption they can use that profile to log into other sites enriching those sites with the data held against the ID and enriching their profile through their actions (last.fm for science). This could include submitting data and papers.
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this is my twitter graph visualised by my data and that of my friends, it’s scarily accurate, I’ve told it nothing about my social graph explicitly, just think how useful this could be for science
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so here’s the flow so far
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login with an existing id
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create a very minimal profile
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Simon’s quote
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get started with it... note social sites have very friendly copy, it’s a conversation
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search for your stuff
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search for your stuff
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Chris [email protected]
Thank you
would love to thank all of my collaborators, however you’d probably not know any of them apart from the lovely BioPython people, but thank you for the invite and for listening