Expert Sourcing as Advanced Version of Curated Crowdsourcing | Witology. Old Weather - Why Scientists Need You. In the following videos scientists explain why they need to enlist your help and how the work you are doing can contribute towards their research. Video transcription [Clive Wilkinson] The Old Weather project isn't about proving or disproving global warming. We need to collect as much historical data as we can over the oceans, because if we wish to understand what the weather will do in the future, then we need to understand what the weather was doing in the past. [Philip Brohan] We're simply attempting to gather more information about historical weather variability, to improve our understanding of all forms of weather variability in the past and so improve our ability to predict weather and climate in the future.
Scientists input weather readings into a database in order to identify weather patterns and extremes. [Rob Allan] One of the major pushes that we've done on this is with the English East India company in the period from the 1780s to the 1830s. [Arfon] Let's get a calculation. Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration. The Daily Crowdsource. Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding News and Headlines. CROWDPARK - The Social Forecasting Game - Wettspiel - Wettportal. Chaordix. InnoCentive. CrowdFlower - Labor-on-Demand. Crowdsourcing Smartsheet. Crowdsourcing + Smartsheet = Smartsourcing Smartsheet is the only online software collaboration tool that makes it possible to connect to an on-demand workforce. We make it easy for you to get work done with co-workers, clients, and vendors so it made sense to us to take it to the next step – we make it easy for you to get work done with a global workforce that’s always available.
You may have heard of crowdsourcing, for example Wikipedia, where people do work for free. Smartsheet has created Smartsourcing, which is a form of paid crowdsourcing where you pay for the work to be done and have much more control over the quality of the results. Smartsourcing is a great way to expand your capacity to get work done at an affordable price. Smartsheet utilizes Amazon's Mechanical Turk on-demand workforce for the crowd labor behind the Smartsourcing feature. Amazon Mechanical Turk.