Zooniverse: Observing the world's largest citizen science platform

WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1049-1054

  Simpson, Robert ^a   Page, Kevin R ^a   De Roure, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Web observatories

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CROWDSOURCING; OBSERVATORIES;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DATA GATHERING; REAL WORLD DEPLOYMENT; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE; WEB BASED;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84990902010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2567948.2579215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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