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The Snapshot Serengeti project is trying to do something along the lines of NASA Clickworkers: to use groups of amateurs to "identify the thousands of animal ph

The Snapshot Serengeti project is trying to do something along the lines of NASA Clickworkers: to use groups of amateurs to "identify the thousands of animal photographs collected from 225 motion-activated cameras in the nature preserve": http://connect.dpreview.com/post/3745415348/sanpshot-serengeti-crowdsourcing-zoology http://connect.dpreview.com/post/3745415348/sanpshot-serenge... It's a lot of fun and it feels great to contribute to a noble project. Plus it's surprisingly addictive: http://www.snapshotserengeti.org/ http://www.snapshotserengeti.org/

incision 14y ago
Very nice, hadn't heard of that one. I've spent some time on SETILive [1] which does something very similar for signal classification and found it to be almost meditative. It's not quite the same thing, but also I get the same kick out of foldit [2] and eterna [3]. 1: http://setilive.org/ http://setilive.org/ 2: http://fold.it/portal/ http://fold.it/portal/ 3: http://eterna.cmu.edu/web/ http://eterna.cmu.edu/web/