#politics #work #JobCuts #OralHistory #crowdsourcing

'The Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project... is seeking current and former federal employees and contractors to share their stories.'

https://www.fedmanager.com/news/your-story-matters-share-your-public-service-experience-for-history

Ich benötige die Hilfe der Crowd.
Kann mir jemand etwas zu diesem Manufakturstempel sagen?
Er befindet sich auf der Unterseite einer Porzellanfigur, die aus dem Nachlass meiner Großeltern stammt.
Online habe ich leider nichts gefunden.
#schwarmwissen #crowdsourcing #porcelain

Northern Arizona University: With new NAU research project, everyone’s an Antarctic scientist. “Working with Lumberjack Ph.D. student Gavin Moriarty, Salvatore will work with ecological researchers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) of Antarctica and the crowdsourcing platform Zooniverse to create a citizen science project aimed at measuring environmental change on the continent over the last […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/northern-arizona-university-with-new-nau-research-project-everyones-an-antarctic-scientist/

Lightningmaps.org: LightningMaps.org is a global #crowdsourcing project that lets you watch #lightning strikes in real time, drawing data from more than 500 volunteer-operated sensors. The site offers configurable web and mobile maps, showing not only each lightning...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/08/02-lightningmapsorg/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

#crowdsourcing #Malaysia #photography

'The government has launched the “Bersama Malaysiaku” campaign in conjunction with the upcoming National Day celebrations, inviting the public to contribute to a national photo archive that celebrates everyday Malaysians.'

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/07/24/share-your-malaysian-moment-government-launches-bersama-malaysiaku-national-photo-archive-campaign/185044

Detroit Free Press: Decades of Michigan lake data, hidden in filing cabinets, digitized with volunteer help. “The 78 years of data on 1,300 Michigan lakes are now fully digitized and available to researchers and the public at the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue data repository. Resurrected from file cabinet drawers, the data is now being used to drive new research.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/detroit-free-press-decades-of-michigan-lake-data-hidden-in-filing-cabinets-digitized-with-volunteer-help/

Brian Aitken from #UniGlasgow speaks about just how reliable crowdsourced dialect data can be, showcasing this through the fascinating project "Speak for Yersel". He also brings up findings from this resource, such as gender, age, education, and region.

WGCU: State Archives adding ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery’ collection, and seeking photos. “The State Archives of Florida is seeking photographs for its newest photographic collection, ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/wgcu-state-archives-adding-weather-disaster-and-recovery-collection-and-seeking-photos/

Join our #crowdsourcing project! Help georeference 1,497 digitised historical #maps from the #ethlibrary

https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/media-types/geodata-maps-aerial-photos/crowdsourcing-project.html

Welche Klimaanlage ist gut?

Ich hörte für eine Wohnung bietet sich Monoblock Klimaanlage gut an. Worauf habe ich zu achten außer Kühlleistung und Stromverbrauch dabei?
Der Nutzerkreis sind Nicht-Nerds (benötigt also kein IoT oder so)

Bin sehr bereit von der Fedi Crowd Intelligence zu hören... also falls sich ja jmd bereits reingenerded hat. Bin offen für alle Ideen und hab keine Ahnung/Vorurteile.

#followerpower #askfedi #askmastodon #fragfedi #klimaanlagen #crowdsourcing

Please report & block any #fraudulent #MutualAid posters because those spam scammers harm people like me - who are asking for help via mutual aid posts here. Please never donate to anyone before checking their profiles (including mine!). Please avoid donating to anyone who has zero posting history here. Please avoid donating to anyone who has ONLY mutual aid posts & not much else. Please forgive yourself(if you've been scammed) & learn how not to be scammed by fraudulent grifters who are playing upon peoples' compassion & abusing kind, caring folks for their own selfish & dishonest wants - not needs. Please keep helping people who are transparent & truly need mutual aid assistance.

Can anyone recommend a good domain registrar? I want something that isnt hosted in a privacy-adverse country like the US. I was originally looking at Swiss based providers, on the idea that their goverment might be more privacy oriented...maybe not so quick to hand over info.

Back in March I had moved one domain over to Infomaniak as a test. Service seemed good and reliable and I liked the idea of their document hosting. However, Im glad I held off:
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloud-service-infomaniak-steps-up-fight-with-proton-over-controversial-swiss-surveillance-law

@iThreepwood @MaiKueper @sandzwerg

Hoher CO2-Gehalt der Atemluft = lange Lebensdauer von Virenpartikeln: https://xcancel.com/ukhadds/status/1931014296730821039 Oder als Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@AlHaddrell

Daher is'n CO2-Detektor effektiv ein Warngerät vor ungesunder Raumluft. Zusätzlich können Messungen bei #indoorco2map.com geteilt werden, auch von einigen billigeren Geräten.

Great to learn about crowdsourcing Latin American digital archives collecting records about the COVID-19 pandemic https://revista.arquivonacional.gov.br/index.php/revistaacervo/article/download/2297/2361?inline=1 by Ian Kisil Marino

Okay, fedi-peoples and other entities, I need your help real quick:
If you happen to know of any AI-related law suits please send them my way. Specifically, I’m looking for law suits relating to intellectual property disputes over training data. Credible sources would be amazing!

Reposts are welcome.
Thank you a lot!

#helpneeded #crowdsourcing #ai #artificialunintelligence #lawsuits

A Comprehensive Framework For Evaluating The Quality Of Street View Imagery
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103094 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS
• [They] propose the first comprehensive quality framework for street view imagery.
• Framework comprises 48 quality elements and may be applied to other image datasets.
• [They] implement partial evaluation for data in 9 cities, exposing varying quality.
• The implementation is released open-source and can be applied to other locations.
• [They] provide an overdue definition of street view imagery..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #streetlevelimagery #Crowdsourcing #QualityAssessmentFramework #Heterogeneity #imagery #dataquality #metrics #QA #urban #cities #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #StreetView #Google #Mapillary #KartaView #commercial #crowsourced #opendata #consistency #standards #specifications #metadata #accuracy #precision #spatiotemporal #terrestrial #assessment

A few minutes for Myanmar.
A few minutes to make a difference.

Join us in supporting the #OpenStreetMap community in Myanmar (myOSM) and Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific to map affected areas from the #MyanmarEarthquake2025.

Map now https://bit.ly/mapmmearthquake

In case you missed it, this post on 'The Critical Role of U.S. Federal Funding in Zooniverse' is a great overview of Zooniverse's contribution to participatory research infrastructure https://blog.zooniverse.org/2025/04/30/the-critical-role-of-u-s-federal-funding-in-zooniverse/

Saw an article today about the Virtual War Memorial and remembered that way back in 2008 at the National Archives we hacked together Google Maps and Tumblr to enable people to upload images and stories about WWI service people. In the 6 months following the site's launch there were more than 1,000 of these 'scrapbook' posts.

The NAA later rebuilt the site, and a couple of years ago they completely removed it. You can find bits on the Internet Archive & Trove, but I don't know how many of the posts were saved...

I wrote about creating the site here: https://discontents.com.au/local-heroes/index.html #GLAM #archives #crowdSourcing