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Stuart Dunn examines the development of crowd-sourcing activities in academic contexts and identifies the potential for looking beyond the short-term benefits crowd-sourcing offers to a project’s c…
My work includes community-sourcing and scholar-sourcing.* This includes collaboration at scale, with different numbers of people involved (generally dozens – hundreds) and with different typ…
Gamers' designs turned into real molecules, and work better than computers'.
Aaron Halfaker is a socio-technologist. He studies the intersection of mass collaboration and the technology that supports it.
Useful cautionary tale about crowdsourcing. Who your crowd is matters!
Scientists from the University of Washington have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of an enzyme that exhibits
From Wired UK: In May 2013, Google's vice president took to stage and announced that Google was aiming to build "a perfect map of the world." An honorable notion with almost utopian connotations -- and why shouldn't it? After all, Google has been at the forefront of leading the biggest change to mapping since the 15th century, when maps went from manuscript to print. Now they're online and taking advantage of satellite imagery, maps are more detailed, accurate and multi-dimensional than they've ever been, but could such a thing as the perfect map ever exist?
Today we’re releasing a new open source project, which will enable any organization with a DocumentCloud account to do crowdsourcing using documents.
BBC Research & Development is running an experiment with the BBC's World Service radio archive to demonstrate how to put large media archives online using a combination of algorithms and people. With your help we aim to comprehensively and accurately tag this collection of BBC programmes.
The following post is by Lori Byrd Phillips, who served as the 2012 US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and is now Digital Content Coordinator at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Her research on Open Authority was recently published in Curator: The Museum Journal. You can learn more in this video from Ignite […]
We are excited to announce the official launch of Crowdcrafting.org, an open source software platform – powered by our Pybossa technology – for developing and sharing projects that rely…
History students digitize historical objects in their communities.
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