Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
A fascinating crowdsourced project. You can read the backstory in this article in Wired magazine.
Link tags: crowds
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Building Inspector by NYPL Labs
A wonderful Zooniverse-like project from the New York Public Library:
Help unlock New York City’s past by identifying buildings and other details on beautiful old maps.
Describe Me
A great Zooniverse-style project for the website of Australia’s Museum Victoria that allows you to provide descriptions for blind and low-vision people.
SETILive
This is not only the single most important human endeavour that you can participate in, it is also ridiculously gorgeous.
Science!
Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut - YouTube
The final amalgam of Star Wars Uncut is an absolute joy to behold. I enjoyed every single moment of this.
Ancient Lives | Help us to Transcribe Papyri
The Zooniverse boffins have done it again! This time you can help to transcribe ancient Egyptian texts. Brilliant!
Bletchley Park and History Hackday Request | Amplified
Let’s make the Bletchley Park data machine-readable so we can start mining the stories they contain (like Old Weather).
Bletchley Park need help to catalogue and create a proper archive of these decrypts.
I want in!
The Milky Way Project
The latest Zooniverse project is a beauty: you can help spot bubbles in infra-red images of nebulae.
.CSV » group think
Emergence, network theory, behavioural science ...these things have been occupying my mind a lot lately.