Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

SwiftRiver is a free and open source platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. The SwiftRiver platform was born out of the need to understand and act upon a wave of massive amounts of crisis data that tends to overwhelm in the first 24 hours of a disaster. Since then, there has been a great deal of interest in this tool for other industries, such as news rooms and brand monitoring groups.
In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels such as Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds. This free tool is especially useful for organizations who need to sort their data by authority and accuracy, as opposed to popularity. These organizations include the media, emergency response groups, election monitors and more. This might include journalists and other media institutions, emergency response groups, election monitors and more.

RT @Data4all #BP must copy Goldcorp ,5czXo release all #well data, create Web2.0-based global #crowdsourcing challenge

"DocumentCloud is an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.

Documents are contributed by journalists, researchers and archivists. If your organization does document-driven investigations, we’d love to have you join us. Using the DocumentCloud workspace, you can upload documents, share them with your team, and conduct structured searches and analyses based on extracted entities — the people, places, and organizations mentioned in the text. As a contributor, you will soon be able to download a lightweight document viewer to embed documents right on your own website."

TurKit is a Java/JavaScript API for running iterative tasks on Mechanical Turk. You can safely re-execute TurKit programs without re-running costly side effects on Mechanical Turk, like creating new HITs, but still write your program in a straightforward imperative manner—there is no need to unravel the program into a state machine. For a detailed description, please read the paper.

Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data - good move for scientific info #bibliography #mendeley

In Manor, TX - crowdsourcing govt: "Welcome to Manor Labs! Manor Labs is an open innovation platform designed to allow you to help us solve problems that plague our local government agency. This is also a place for you to submit ideas on how we can do things better. For more information on how we are using open innovation in Manor, please e-mail innovations@cityofmanor.org."

The Twitter Times generates a newspaper from your account http://bit.ly/3ojBAs

Mechanical Turk app Provides Work for Refugees Seems to me mturk is one of the most underrated and important tools

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