Talking about Mapping for Change project

Louise Francis, is co-founder for the Mapping for Change project (co-owned by UCL's ExCiteS group). Mapping for Change is an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities by providing them with mapping tools.



Find out more at http://www.mappingforchange.org.uk

Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS)

Muki Haklay is a professor of geographic information science and co-director of the newly formed research group Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) at University College London



If you are interested in finding our more about ExCiteS, you can visit the project website, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/.

Simon Tokumine is talking about Vizzuality and the Old Weather project

Simon Tokumine works for Vizzuality, a company that specialises in developing citizen cyberscience projects. One of their most successful projects is Old Weather, where citizen cyberscientists get to help meteorologists make climate model projections by transcribing and interpreting old transcripts recovered worldwide from weather observations made by Royal Navy ships during the first World War.



More information at http://vizzuality.com/ and http://www.oldweather.org/

The 'Digital Exposure of English Place Names' by Stuart Dunn

Crowdsourcing is often used to build up communities with a specific knowledge base. Stuart Dunn, a Lecturer at the Centre for e-Research in the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London, introduces a humanities project called 'Digital Exposure of English Place Names'. Stuart also informs us about a new scoping study, which hopes to provide some insights in developing a typology for crowdsourcing.



To find out more visit http://englishplacenames.cerch.kcl.ac.uk