This presentation was given on 22nd of september 2011 at the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) in Poznan, Poland. It explores how archaeologists could exploit citizen science collaborations to make better use of the ever proliferating quantity of aerial and satellite data.

1. Head in the clouds: Improving knowledge by engaging with the web David Stott

3. Data proliferation

4. Limited curatorial resources

5. This presentation will look at how researchers in other fields address this

6. Citizen Science

8. Satellite imagery

9. Aerial photographs

10. Existing archives are enormous

11. For example; TARA / NCP in the UK holds 10,000,000+ images

12. A large proportion of these images are of archaeological value

13. Most of the people working in aerial archaeology in Europe are in this room

15. A puzzle game based on protein folding

16. 236,000+ users

17. Used to examine protein structure

18. Produces models good enough to design new anti-retroviral drugs

19. Successfully mapped the structure of a protein causing HIV in rhesus monkeys

20. Despite attempts to resolve this computationally this has been unsolved for over 15 years

22. Maps and classifies galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope Imagery

23. 250,000+ users

24. 60,000,000+ Classifications

26. WATCH COSMOS Carl Sagan

28. Digitising historic weather measurements from ship’s logs

29. Helps improve climate predictions

30. Very high temporal (<daily) resolution with positions all over the world

31. 238 ships

32. 150 completed so far

34. Digitising Egyptian papyri

35. http://ancientlives.org/

36. Moon Zoo

37. Mapping the moon’s surface from Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter

38. 2,000,000 images classified so far

40. http://exploration.nationalgeographic.com/mongolia/

41. Users tag features on GeoEye imagery

42. 10,591 users

43. 627,057 images classified

44. 1,000,000 tags

45. Very simple

48. Learning: I find the site and forums helpful in learning about astronomy.

49. Discovery: I can look at galaxies that few people have seen before.

50. Community: I can meet other people with similar interests.

51. Teaching: I find Galaxy Zoo to be a useful resource for teaching.

52. Beauty: I enjoy looking at the beautiful galaxy images.

53. Fun: I had a lot of fun categorizing the galaxies.

54. Vastness: I am amazed by the vast scale of the universe.

55. Zoo: I am interested in the Galaxy Zoo project.

56. Astronomy: I am interested in astronomy.From Raddick et al 2009

58. http://www.westlothianarchaeology.org.uk/

59. Press stories of people finding archaeological sites on Google Earth

60. RCAHMS

61. http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/scotlands-rural-past.html

62. Portable Antiquities Scheme

64. Identification of potential archaeological features

65. Ground truthing

66. Cropmark monitoring

68. Provide training

69. http://www.moonzoo.org/how_to_take_part

70. Build and engage with a community

71. Must treat users as collaborators and not consumers

72. Relationships must be reciprocal

74. Most of the software exists already

75. Web mapping e.g. WFS, WMS

76. Open StreetMap

77. Mapwarper: http://mapwarper.net/

78. Zooniverse

79. Back-end for Old Weather, Galaxy Zoo, Moon Zoo and Ancient Lives

80. Will accept proposals for projects- call deadline January 2012

81. Citizen science alliance

83. Hostility to open data

84. Silo mentality

85. Ethics

86. Exposing sites to looting

90. GPS

91. Camera

92. Attribute data

95. Photogrammetry for the masses

96. Extraction of pointclouds

97. As easy as uploading photos to facebook

99. Conclusion: “If we build it, they will come”