3. Peer Production and Sharing
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
↑ Table of Contents
← Chapter 2 | Chapter 4 →
Content
Summary
Sources
Sources cited in the chapter
Other relevant readings
Case Studies
Supporting examples
- Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Could be considered micro-outsourcing, allows API access to human effort. Also see Turkwatch for an overview of recent MTurk projects
Counter-examples
Indeterminate Examples (in progress)
- Mycroft
- UCB iSchool research project, a generalization of ClickWorkers by utilizing a few seconds of web surfer's abilities to collaboratively solve large problems, without leaving the page. Currently focusing on Wikipedia image tagging and Project Gutenberg.