Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. By Jeff HowePage 1 of 4 next » 1. Story Tools Story Images Click thumbnails for full-size image: Claudia Menashe needed pictures of sick people. In October 2004, she ran across a stock photo collection by Mark Harmel, a freelance photographer living in Manhattan Beach, California. The National Health Museum has grand plans to occupy a spot on the National Mall in Washington by 2012, but for now it’s a fledgling institution with little money. After several weeks of back-and-forth, Menashe emailed Harmel to say that, regretfully, the deal was off. iStockphoto, which grew out of a free image-sharing exchange used by a group of graphic designers, had undercut Harmel by more than 99 percent. He can’t, of course. It took a while for Harmel to recognize what was happening.
A Crowdsourced Hyperlocal City Guide, Coming To You Soon DavisWiki is a hard thing to describe. It’s a blog as a blog would be written by an entire community. It’s a virtual bulletin board that’s more comprehensive than Craigslist and Patch and Yelp combined. It’s simultaneously a history repository and a live ticker of today’s news (Community alert! The U.C. Davis Police Department is searching for a man suspected of trying to kidnap a young girl on campus.) UC Davis students launched the site eight years ago, before most people knew what a wiki was, when Wikipedia itself was still considered dodgy. “It’s the most comprehensive, hyperlocal thing ever,” says Philip Neustrom, who helped launch the site as a student and now works as the executive director of its universal version 2.0, LocalWiki. Thanks to a grant from the Knight News Challenge, LocalWiki has been further developing the software so that communities anywhere can replicate the idea. DavisWiki was an attempt to trap it somewhere in cyberspace.
Logo Design, Web Design and More. Design Done Differently | 99designs.com 7 Crowdsourced Projects That You Can Take Part In Right Now Without even realizing it, you may have been part of a crowdsourced project. Any beta invite to a new web startup is like a crowdsourced effort. Remember, Google Image Labeler, a game that improved Google Image Search? Well, that too was a crowdsourced effort and you probably never realized it. Crowdsourcing has grown into a movement and its improving our lives in ways we do not realize. Check out our infographic on crowdsourcing for a visual explanation. Dickens Journal Online The idea behind the project is to make the journals of Charles Dickens accessible to the blind and visually impaired by using text-to-speech technologies we have today. EteRNA The premise behind this crowdsourced science project could be that sometimes non-biologists and even the unscientific mind can see patterns that can escape the boffin. OpenStreetMap Think Google Maps, and then think about it being editable. reCAPTCHA The project was started by Carnegie Mellon University. Social Attire 7 Billion Ideas
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Crowdsourcing a Better World Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. A friend who is a reader of Fixes recently told me she was often frustrated by the column. She doesn’t run a nongovernmental organization or design products to help bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers get drinkable water. There’s always writing a check, of course. The crowdsourcing concept — collecting contributions from many individuals to achieve a goal — was being used long before Wikipedia. But online crowdsourcing is a relatively recent phenomenon, and the efficiencies it brings to communicating within a large group make it useful in many new ways. But we are mainly interested in what crowdsourcing can do to help civilians contribute to social change in a way that is both useful and emotionally satisfying. Since money is what most social change projects need most, many crowdsource Web sites are really there for crowdfunding. One prototype for this kind of crowdsourcing is Ushahidi.com.
Doctor Crowdsourcing Afgelopen donderdag promoveerde Irma Borst op haar proefschrift “Understanding Crowdsourcing; The effects of motivation and rewards on performance in voluntary online activities”, aan de Erasmus Universiteit van Rotterdam. Een promotieonderzoek duurt toch minstens een jaar of 4 en dan is het opmerkelijk als iemand een onderwerp kiest – zoals Crowdsourcing – dat als woord nog niet bestaat bij aanvang in 2007, en bij voltooiing een modern, hip woord is geworden. Irma mag zich dus kortweg Doctor in de Crowdsourcing noemen. Bij mijn weten is zij daarmee de eerste en voorlopig enige in de wereld. Irma begint haar verdediging met de grap dat crowdsurfing toch echt heel wat anders is, hoewel een journalist die haar interviewde daarmee in de war was. Zij geeft 2 voorbeelden: Lego: het modelvoorbeeld van crowdsourcing, waarbij de crowd (klanten/consumenten) online zelf nieuwe Lego ontwerpen. Voordelen Het is duidelijk dat deze manier van uitbesteden aantrekkelijk is. Vrijwilligers Profielen
The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects To sum up my series of posts on different considerations for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage projects I thought it would be helpful to lay out a set of questions to ask when developing or evaluating projects. I think if a project has good answers to each of these four genres of questions it is well on its way toward success. Four Areas of Questioning Human Computation Key Questions: How could we use human judgment to augment computer processable information? It would be a waste of the public’s time to invite them in to complete a task that a computer could already complete. Wisdom of Crowds Key Questions: How could we empower and consult with the people who care about this? Unlike human computation, the goal here is not users ability to process information or make judgments but their desire to provide their opinion. Scaffolding Users Key Questions: How can our tools act as scaffolds to help make the most of users efforts? Motivating Users Key Questions: Further Reading & Viewing Gee, J.
Wiki's Waarheid Google of Wikipedia? Wie zoekt op internet - en wie doet dat niet?- wordt steeds vaker verwezen naar Wikipedia. Deze gratis online ‘volksencyclopedie’ is sinds twee jaar de snelste stijger op lijstjes van meest bezochte websites. Maar weten we eigenlijk wel wat we gebruiken? Tegenlicht duikt in het verhaal achter Wikipedia en ontdekt de wondere wereld van web 2.0: hype of revolutie? In deze uitzending gaat IJsbrand van Veelen op zoek naar de waarheid van en achter Wikipedia. Betekent dit het einde van de autoriteit van traditionele kennisinstituten als de Britannnica? In Wiki’s Waarheid interviews met de hoofdrolspelers in het debat: Jimmy Wales (oprichter en opper Wikipediaan), Larry Sanger (inmiddels vertrokken medeoprichter Wikipedia, nu Citizendium), Andrew Keen (schrijver van ‘The Cult of the Amateur.
6 Unusual Crowdsourcing Projects | DesignCrowd United States Blog Here are 6 unusual projects that were crowdsourced successfully through DesignCrowd: 1. Your Very Own Beverage Label. Do you make the best brew out of anyone you know? Have you ever considered labelling it and selling it to your mates? If you want to get serious (or just give a great gift) consider labelling your very own beverage creations like this company did. View the results of the contest here! 2. Recently, on DesignCrowd, a company crowdsourced their logo for a surfboard company and got some amazing submissions. Check out the other amazing designs here! 3. Got your perfect idea but don't have the design capabilities to carry it out? See the many variations of Milhouse here! 4. Have you ever watched an old movie and wondered if you should have your own seal to put on letters? The rest of the designs can be viewed here. 5. Are you a budding actor or actress? The rest of the results are here 6. To get some ideas for your own family crest click here!
Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services. These services include ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative result. The word crowdsourcing itself is a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing, and was coined in 2005.[1][2][3][4] As a mode of sourcing, crowdsourcing existed prior to the digital age (i.e. "offline").[5] There are major differences between crowdsourcing and outsourcing. Some forms of crowdsourcing, such as in "idea competitions" or "innovation contests" provide ways for organizations to learn beyond the "base of minds" provided by their employees (e.g. Definitions[edit] The term "crowdsourcing" was coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, editors at Wired, to describe how businesses were using the Internet to "outsource work to the crowd",[1] which quickly led to the portmanteau "crowdsourcing."
Cooking Up a Crowdsourced Digitization Project that Scales If the NYPL Labs’ crowdsourced menu transcription project only whetted your appetite, now the University of Iowa Libraries is taking it to the next level with a similar project for transcribing, among other things, recipes. The libraries are launching DIY History, a new initiative that crowdsources the transcription and tagging of primary sources. The project follows on from the libraries’ first crowdsourcing experiment, the Civil War Diaries and Letters Transcription Project, which debuted in spring 2011 and transcribed over 15,000 pages of diaries and letters. DIY History offers a broader scope of materials than just the Civil War documents, including the Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks digital collection, the Iowa Byington Reed Diaries from the Iowa Women’s Archives, and the Nile Kinnick Collection (correspondence and diaries belonging to the Iowan football star).