Summary
The Digital Earth project is a Big Data exercise par excellence and crowdsourcing could play a key part
Description
John Richards of Australian National University told the conference that there are two ways of tackling the ultimate Big Data challenge – crowdsourcing using information acquired by amateurs, and entrusting the machine with more of the task of verifying the data.
SOURCE LINK to the full article:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/crowdsourcing-knowledge-of-the-planet