Hackfest: Creating Interoperability Between Projects, Communities, and Data

This hackfest will build upon lessons learned during a similar event at the Citizen Cyber Science conference in London in February, 2014 (organized by SciStarter, and NYU with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation). This... [ view full abstract ]

This hackfest will build upon lessons learned during a similar event at the Citizen Cyber Science conference in London in February, 2014 (organized by SciStarter, and NYU with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation). This hands-on hackfest is designed to be a collaborative working session to explore and design ways to create helpful connections between citizen science communities.
Participants and project owners face barriers: Multiple types of logins for many different projects or platforms coupled with an inability to track contributions across projects/platforms, are two examples.
This hackfest aims to tap the collective wisdom of San Jose's programmers, designers, artists, program managers and others to design and create new or repurposed tools to help more people get involved in and track their contributions to citizen science projects AND to explore ways projects can share data, volunteers, tools and other resources to rise the tide of citizen science and enable better cross-platform analytics for project leaders while improving the experience for participants.

Daniel Arbuckle (lead developer, SciStarter); Steve Gano (director of product development, SciStarter): Greg Newman (CitSci.org); Russell Neches (UC Davis/Eisen Lab); Caren Cooper (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)