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Australian Museum crowdsourcing website DigiVol sees spike in volunteers during COVID-19 – ABC News
While the doors are shut and visitors are no longer able to see, say, a creepy crawly from 1929, the Australian Museum’s crowdsourcing website DigiVol explodes with volunteers.
The coronavirus lockdown has had a curious effect on the Australian Museum collections in Sydney.
Key points:
- DigiVol was created in 2011 by the Australian Museum and Atlas Of Living Australia
- Institutions upload their collections and ask citizen scientists to help transcribe details
- Since the COVID-19 lockdown in March, two million transcriptions have been submitted
While the doors were shut and visitors were no longer able to see, say, a creepy crawly from …
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