Crowdsourcing Science

Crowdsourcing research is a method that helps scientists to gather data, solve scientific problems or analyse large amounts of data.

Here are some successful examples and useful platforms:

• The Human Genome Project

• ENCODE

• Fold it

• The Polymath Project

• Galaxy Zoo

• Scientific American Citizen Science

• Amazon Mechanical Turk

• Bürger Schaffen Wissen (German)

Book Chapter: Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in the Sciences

In their text, Thomas Schildhauer and Hilger Voss show how new technologies helped opening innovation processes and led to various successful crowdsourcing experiments in the sciences. They give several examples of open science crowdsourcing, ranging from solving mathematical problems to deciphering the human genome and mapping the universe with citizen science.

You can access and download the book chapter here:

Schildhauer T., Voss H. (2014) Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in the Sciences. In: Bartling S., Friesike S. (eds) Opening Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8_17.