Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Caroline Nickerson, Aug 29, 2019
SciStarter provides free tools to benefit citizen science project coordinators, participants, organizations, and researchers. Three of these tools are 1) the Participation API, 2) the SciStarter Login System, and 3) the Project Finder Widget. Projects that use the Participant API or the Volunteer Sign Up tools (or both!) are called SciStarter Affiliates, and they are … Read more “SciStarter Affiliate Tools”
Categories: Affiliate Tools, API, Tools
By Darlene Cavalier, Feb 10, 2019
I thought it would be helpful to provide a description of what SciStarter’s Participant API is and why a growing number of projects and platforms are implementing it and becoming SciStarter Affiliates in the process. A little background. SciStarter had been “merely” a database where project scientists would add their projects and citizen scientists would find … Read more “About SciStarter’s “Participant API,” used by 50+ citizen science projects (and counting)”
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