Hi all - I'm going to temporarily pause (i.e, lock) this thread while I have the opportunity to reach out directly to those involved in order to create space for a more constructive and respectful dialogue moving forward. Thank you for your understanding and commitment to keeping our community supportive and collaborative.

• Laura, Zooniverse PI

Yes, thank you for the addition of ctrl/scroll zoom! It's a little more cumbersome than the original system, but for me, it makes it functional again. I'm happily back to classifying.
(Though ironically, my current favorite project is one that doesn't require zooming!)

Here the latest update from the Zooniverse neurodiversity research working group - a brief introduction to the topic and terminology:

"Neurodivergent? Neurotypical? Neurominority? Everyone is on the spectrum: Neurodiversity explained"

Hello, Zooniverse!

If you have ever worked in a Translator role for any Zooniverse project and would like to be interviewed (in writing, via private emails) for an upcoming Daily Zooniverse feature article (similar to this one: https://daily.zooniverse.org/2024/11/22/meet-psr-j0737-3039/), please send a message to contact@zooniverse.org before 10 February 2025. Use "translator" as a subject for your email.

Looking forward to hearing your stories!
And, as always, thank you for everything you do.

Alisa

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Thanks for sharing this! Bookmarking to share with any teams who are looking for a similar workaround option (i.e. who just want aggregate data from Transcription Task projects w/o using ALICE as a tool for manual review). Great to have on hand until we know whether the next proposal is successful & we can (hopefully) build tools in ALICE for batch approval.

Also just completed the Transcription Task survey.

Following up to say that the survey is live! I posted about it in a new discussion thread on this board.

Cheers,
Sam

After doing limited classifications on several projects, while my "Home project =Snapshot Wisconsin" was down. I have some serious concerns about this "New, user friendly format". Front and foremost, is that we have lost the ability to "Zoom in" by use of the scroll wheel. Having to use the "index" and click multiple times to get maximum magnification is a real drag, to say the least. I sure wish we had a choice. I was hoping to reach the half million mark on my classification counter (only 437 thousand at this time), but if SnapShotWisconsin goes to the new format, they will be losing one old Citizen Scientist

The collection of hydrological data in Italy has been managed at the national level by the National Hydrological and Mareographic Service (SIMN) since early 1900. The dismantlement of the SIMN, performed about 30 years ago, resulted in data collection being transferred to a regional level. This change has determined problems in the availability of complete and homogeneous data for the whole country. Historical hydrological measurements are usually available only in the printed version of the Hydrological Yearbooks and limited efforts have been spent to digitize this collection. Within the SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts) project we aim to digitize these data by crowd-sourcing the recovery of hydrological measurements from historical Hydrological Yearbooks to produce a consistent dataset.

Up to now, all the historical Yearbooks from the Bolzano, Trento and Genova compartments have been successfully digitised. A big THANK YOU to all the citizen scientists who took part in this activity! Our journey through Italy continues with the remaining compartments: we have now uploaded new scans that are available for the transcriptions!

Project website: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/siren-project/siren-project

Data retrieved up to now: