Facilitating scientific discovery through crowdsourcing and distributed participation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14806/ej.19.B.742Abstract
Science has evolved from the isolated individual tinkering in the lab, through the era of the “gentleman scientist” with his or her assistant(s), to group-based then expansive collaboration and now to an opportunity to collaborate with the world. With the advent of the internet the opportunity for crowd-sourced contribution and large-scale collaboration has exploded and, as a result, scientific discovery has been further enabled.
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2013-10-14
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