The Group Catalog (https://community-catalog.zooniverse.org) is a customized device to supply Zooniverse mission contributors the chance to discover a mission dataset, and to permit our group to experiment with creating new pathways into classifying.
We wished to create a digital area that will facilitate not solely sharing, but additionally discovery of contributors’ contributions alongside institutional data (i.e. metadata) concerning the topics being categorized. The end result was a knowledge exploration app linked to particular Zooniverse crowdsourcing tasks (How Did We Get Right here? and Stereovision) that permits customers to look and discover every mission’s photograph dataset based mostly on participant-generated hashtags in addition to the institutional metadata offered by mission groups.
The app features a residence web page (proven above) with search/shopping capabilities, in addition to a person web page for every {photograph} included within the mission. The topic web page (proven under) shows any obtainable institutional metadata, participant-generated hashtags, and Discuss feedback. A ‘Classify this topic’ button permits customers exploring the info to go on to the Zooniverse mission and take part in no matter sort of information assortment is happening (transcription, labeling, producing descriptive textual content, and so forth.).
Mixed with the Discuss (and QuickTalk) options, we’re hoping that this device will encourage contributors to share their experiences, reminiscences, questions, and ideas concerning the mission images, the historic occasions depicted, and the significance of the gathering. The Group Catalog affords an method the place a participant can enable their curiosity in a selected merchandise to guide them to participate in a classification process, reasonably than classification to Discuss being a one-way avenue.
How Did We Get Right here? was the pilot mission for the Group Catalog, and is now full. We’ve simply launched the second mission to make use of the Catalog, Stereovision, which you’ll be able to take part in both through the Group Catalog web site, or by visiting the Zooniverse mission right here: Stereovision.
The Group Catalog is just not obtainable for re-use by different tasks on this actual kind (i.e. as a standalone app), however we’re planning to include a few of its options into the Discuss part of the Zooniverse platform in 2025. You probably have any questions or wish to share your ideas about this app, please be happy to answer to this submit, or e-mail us at contact@zooniverse.org.
The Group Catalog was developed as a part of the AHRC-funded mission Communities and Crowds. This mission is run in collaboration with volunteer researchers and workers on the Nationwide Science and Media Museum in Bradford, United Kingdom, and Nationwide Museums Scotland, in addition to with the Zooniverse groups at Oxford College and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.