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Official video for 'Alphabet of Nations' from They Might Be Giants' Deluxe Edition of 'No!' Featuring photographs sent in by TMBG fans from ALL AROUND THE WORLD! Directed...
Best Children’s Album award winners and geek-rock legends They Might Be Giants are asking for fans from across the globe to send in pictures of their children posed with their country’s flag, a...
They Might Be Giants and Emily Oberman from Pentagram NY are creating a brand new crowd-sourcedvideo for the new extended version of ALPHABET OF NATIONS.
The video was created by Emily Oberman at design firm Pentagram,and contains pics—solicited online by the band—of children from countries featured in the song. Fans were asked to submit three...
Combining technology and intelligence of the crowd, IBM managed to solve the major problem for digitizing the archives of the National Diet Library of Japan: the identification of more than 10,000 characters of the Japanese language. The prototype technology, created by IBM Research, allows full-text digitization of Japanese literature to be realized through expansive recognition of Japanese characters. and enabling users to collaboratively review and correct language characters, script and structure.
Aside from ensuring quality recognition of Japanese characters, IBM researchers aimed to optimize the amount of time needed to review and verify the accuracy of the digitized texts. By introducing unique collaborative tools via crowdsourcing, the technology allows many users to pour through the texts and make corrections at a much higher rate of productivity and efficiency. Additionally, the full-text digitization system is designed to promote future international collaborations and standardization of libraries around the world.
The 5 nominated crowdsourcing projects are (in alphabetical order, with the institution that will present the project at DISH2011): 1) Digitalkoot (National Library of Finland), 2) Old Weather...
As President Obama is expected to sign the JOBS Act into law at 2pm EST on April 5, 2012, a leadership group consisting of equity and debt crowdfunding platforms and industry experts including legal, securities and SEC experts, have mobilized to explore the development of a self-regulatory framework for the crowdfunding industry. The JOBS Act requires that all equity and debt crowdfunding platforms be a member of a national securities association. This leadership group will explore the various paths to meet that requirement in ways that protect investors and support a vibrant industry.
Chat live on Crowdsourcing.org with representatives from this group on Monday, April 9th.
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