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2012-01-01
The phrase “Web 2.0” is supposed to have been coined at a conference brainstorming session about the new types of websites emerging after the dot.com collapse.1 Web 2.0 sites, like the Wikipedia and Flickr, are often characterized by broad participation in content creation. They leverage the web...
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Fall 2011
Image understanding is a general challenge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of its complexity. It is considered an AI-complete problem. We focus on the specific, important, and difficult case of microfossil identification, which is currently done manually. Microfossil identification has...
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Spring 2015
Since the inception of Google Maps in 2005, there has been plenty of discussion about how this type of mapping technology has changed the way individuals orient themselves and whether or not the use of technology like Google Maps changes the way we see the world. In short, it has. However,...
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2012
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Chernyavska, Maryna, Kononenko, Natalie, Sellmer, Megan, Anvik, Karl
How can crowdsourcing be used in the humanities? This paper describes a crowdsourcing project at the University of Alberta that developed a tool for participants to sign out audio clips for transcribing and translating from Ukrainian. The audio clips were from fieldwork on Ukrainian folklore and...
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Why Bother? Examining the motivations of users in large-scale crowd-powered online initiatives
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This study examines the motivations of participants in networked, large-scale content production and research – a paradigm of distributed work magnified by the Internet. This has come to be called crowdsourcing. The approach taken in examining the crowdsourcing paradigm is of retrospection, with...