Zooniverse
Sign in to saveZooniverse is a global platform for people-powered research, also known as participatory science or citizen science. It is a collaboration between Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, the University of Oxford, and the University of Minnesota. It is home to some of the Internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects.
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- Zooniverse
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- No
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- Citizen science web portal
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- English, German, Polish
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- Citizen Science Alliance
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- Online
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13 sectionsContents
- Background
- Project Builder
- Zooniverse Mobile App
- Projects
- Art projects
- Space projects
- Nature and climate projects
- Biology Projects
- Humanities projects
- Physics projects
- Retired projects
- See also
- References
Zooniverse is a global platform for people-powered research, also known as participatory science or citizen science. It is a collaboration between Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, the University of Oxford, and the University of Minnesota. It is home to some of the Internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects.
== Background == The organization grew from the original Galaxy Zoo project and now hosts dozens of projects which allow volunteers to participate in crowdsourced scientific research. It has headquarters at Oxford University and the Adler Planetarium. Unlike many early internet-based citizen science projects (such as SETI@home) which used spare computer processing power to analyse data, known as volunteer computing, Zooniverse projects require the active participation of human volunteers to complete research tasks. Projects have been drawn from disciplines including astronomy, ecology, cell biology, humanities, and climate science.