Distributed Knowledge
Development of knowledge assets or information resources from a distributed pool of contributors. Crowdsourcing is used to develop, aggregate, and share knowledge and information through open Q&A, user-generated knowledge systems, news, citizen journalism, and forecasting.
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article Distributed KnowledgeIf you decide to join, you would be part of a group of between 50 and 100 amateur astronomers. These astronomers conduct light-curve analysis on space rocks. (This involves making repeated images...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsCrowdHydrology was started in 2011 by Chris Lowry, PhD, a University at Buffalo assistant professor of geology. He came up with the idea after reading about a California researcher who used...
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article Distributed KnowledgeIf you decide to join, you would be part of a group of between 50 and 100 amateur astronomers. These astronomers conduct light-curve analysis on space rocks. (This involves making repeated images...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsCrowdHydrology was started in 2011 by Chris Lowry, PhD, a University at Buffalo assistant professor of geology. He came up with the idea after reading about a California researcher who used...
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The founder of the crowdsourcing website Wikileaks " Julian Assange " will not be the first person to branch unexpectedly into the music business. Detention has also served as suitable...
article Distributed KnowledgeFounded as a Melbourne start-up before moving to the US, Kaggle uses the internet and social media to operate online data analysis competitions for tens of thousands of scientists around the world...
article Distributed KnowledgeJames Alfandre, Executive Director at the Kentlands Initiative, opened the session by defining crowdsourcing. He thinks of crowdsourcing as an “open call to an undefined group of people.” It’s...
article Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationWho says libraries are dead.
Today we took down the crowdsourcing campaign we developed and ran for the Ottawa Public Library called Imagine. You can still visit the website,...
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This year, the charity's GameJam saw 55 'hackers', computer programmers, gamers, graphic designers and other specialists collaborate over a weekend to produce 12 prototype mobile...
article Crowdfunding, Distributed KnowledgeThe platform is a simple , it’s a combination of crowdsourcing ideas and crowdfunding the research. A person has an idea for a research project , they then record a video explaining their idea....
article Distributed KnowledgeHoping to be implemented in institutions across the country, the startup offers a platform that enables patients to fill out their interests, alongside their time of stay. The crowdsourcing service...
article Distributed KnowledgeHe applauded the state for taking an innovative approach by publishing the handbook to GitHub. "[With government] we always cheer when try they new things even if they don't work....
document Distributed KnowledgeRanker.com, a crowdsourcing website that relies on “the wisdom of crowds,” has collected the aggregated opinion of over 1,500 voters on the list of “Vegetables I Won’t Eat.” Voters are able to vote...
article Distributed KnowledgeValuch notes that the conception of the map was not originally intended to be a humanitarian response site, but rather a tool for citizens to report specifics about the crisis.
“The aim was to...
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Crowdsourcing site - Airbnb is furthering its presence in Asia after it introduced its Neighborhoods feature to Bangkok, which becomes the first location in the region to fall under the company’s...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsOn the AXS Map desktop or mobile site, click on a place to view accessibility ratings for a local business' entries and bathrooms on a five-star rating system. The concept is based on...
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Global outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace Freelancer recognizes the growing community of software developers in the Philippines. Also operating locally, it has been an advocate of IT...
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" Crowdsourcing " is one of the tech terms that made the cut in this year's version of The Oxford English Dictionary, while "follower" and "tweet" will be given...
article Distributed KnowledgeHeineken is flipping the idea of the dad joke around, and celebrating it for Father’s Day. Sure, it can be embarrassing when your father introduces himself to the waitress and says "Hi, I’ll...
Distributed Knowledge, ToolsFollowing the success of its Hurricane Sandy relief program in the U.S., Airbnb announced that the company is expanding the service to its userbase across the world.
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