As the information industry continues to evolve, we at IEI are convinced that crowdsourced updating will play an ever larger role in its underlying foundation. No longer will databases languish waiting for periodic updates. Rather, they will be constantly updated via a combination of user feedback, event-driven triggers, and crowdsourced
In 2010, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) posited the three conditions that would make crowdsourcing a common, everyday process. Over the last five years crowdsourcing has matured a lot, and it seems these three conditions have now been met. These are the three requirements the authors suggested. 1. What
The Data Day Texas conference in Austin once again brought together hundreds of folks in the Texas big data community for one data-filled day. Here are the presentations that we thought were “best of show.” Lisa Green, Director of Common Crawl, discussed the challenges of capturing open data at web
Large media companies are moving away from paying in-house staff to create proprietary online content and favoring two lower-cost models for content creation — user-generated content (UGC) and crowdsourcing-generated content (CGC). Since these two approaches are often confused with each other, it’s worth looking more closely at the real differences
It’s expensive to staff a call center with full-time, highly trained callers. There are also substantial upfront and ongoing costs for technology—routing, dialers, headsets, etc. When you add the fact that projects are often seasonal and need both lightning-fast execution and high-quality results, managing telephone-based projects can seem almost impossible.
Crowdsourcing can be a difficult concept to understand. The rise of “private” crowds would seem to muddy the waters even further, but this emerging phenomenon is worth a closer look. Workers participating in labor marketplaces like the Amazon Mechanical Turk or eLance are members of “public” crowds that almost anyone
Quality control is one of the biggest challenges facing data management firms, especially those that rely on crowdsourced resources for some or all of their production. In an effort improve worker skills and accuracy for crowdsourced projects, I conducted a study under Dr. Matt Lease at the University of Texas
We at IEI recently had the opportunity to talk to Chris Taggart of OpenCorporates about open data, data accessibility, and data quality. OpenCorporates aims to be “an open database of the corporate world, with the goal of having URL for every company worldwide. In addition, they’re slowly importing company-related government
On April 15th IEI’s Matt Manning spoke at the CASE District 4 Conference in Houston where he addressed an audience of alumni relations professionals. He discussed IEI’s recent experience updating an alumni database with the same tools IEI uses on B2B lists—web monitoring, Internet research, crowdsourcing, and telephone verification. The
Like any language, crowdsourcing jargon has morphed over time. Some terms have been around for years and are very familiar, while others are relatively new and reflect crowdsourcing’s ongoing evolution. Here are some must-know terms for talking about crowdsourcing in 2014. Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing uses online marketplaces, in particular Amazon Mechanical
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