http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1403358/lithograph-plate-7-observations-of-the-southern-nebulae-made-with-the-great-melbourne-telescope-1869-1885-joseph-turner-circa-1876

Open science, citizen science – unleashing the power of community collaboration to create new museum scienceElycia Wallis, Arfon Smith, Jeff

Holmes@elyw @arfon

#MCN2012

Participatory, not new, needs open data

http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1267787/photograph-camp-at-trousers-point-flinders-island-1893

Finding projects

http://scistarter.com/http://www.citizensciencecenter.com/

Inside museums and out

http://www.projectnoah.org/ http://www.climatewatch.org.au/

Atlas of Living Australia

http://www.ala.org.au/

Atlas of Living Australia

http://volunteer.ala.org.au/

Agarista agricola Image taken as part of Australian Museum rapid digitisation project.Photographer: Louise Ledwich© Australian MuseumAvailable online at: http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/image/Agarista-agricola-2

Frogs and leaves

http://australianmuseum.net.au/BlogPost/Web-2U/Introducing-our-Frogs-Field-Guidehttp://www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/default.asp?ID=ispy_catchment_creatureshttp://leafsnap.com/

Getting museum science out

http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/mv-field-guide-app/

Here come the people – what can they do?

http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1688765/digital-photograph-family-walking-to-st-vincent-s-hospital-melbourne-circa-1932