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Crowdsourcing
About: Crowdsourcing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12889 publications have been published within this topic receiving 230638 citations.
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TL;DR: Along with other Web 2.0 market intelligence tools, online idea competitions can provide essential input for decision making in the early phases of product innovation as mentioned in this paper. But in order to use onli...
Abstract: Along with other Web 2.0 market intelligence tools, online idea competitions can provide essential input for decision making in the early phases of product innovation. However, in order to use onli...
62 citations
25 Feb 2017
TL;DR: A deeper understanding of the circumstances under which crowdsourcing is a useful, feasible or desirable tool for research is developed, as well as the factors that may influence researchers' decisions around adopting crowdsourcing technology.
Abstract: Numerous crowdsourcing platforms are now available to support research as well as commercial goals. However, crowdsourcing is not yet widely adopted by researchers for generating, processing or analyzing research data. This study develops a deeper understanding of the circumstances under which crowdsourcing is a useful, feasible or desirable tool for research, as well as the factors that may influence researchers' decisions around adopting crowdsourcing technology. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 researchers in diverse disciplines, spanning the humanities and sciences, to illuminate how research norms and practitioners' dispositions were related to uncertainties around research processes, data, knowledge, delegation and quality. The paper concludes with a discussion of the design implications for future crowdsourcing systems to support research.
62 citations
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a deeper understanding of the rise of crowdfunding as an alternative funding opportunity by discussing its main characteristics, the market development, different classification approaches, its fields of application and by providing directions for future research.
Abstract: Crowdfunding is increasingly gaining attention in theory and practice. Various platforms have emerged, offering entrepreneurs and project owners the possibility to raise money from an undefined group of online users (“crowd”). In this article we aim to provide a deeper understanding of the rise of crowdfunding as an alternative funding opportunity by discussing its main characteristics, the market development, different classification approaches, its fields of application and by providing directions for future research.
61 citations
TL;DR: The results indicated that the perceived benefits of cost reduction, brand visibility, and access to specialized skills positively affect firms' intention to crowdsource, while codification costs and proposal evaluation costs negatively influence firms' crowdsourcing intentions.
61 citations
07 Oct 2013
TL;DR: This paper presents a methodology for assessing the quality of linked data resources, which comprises of a manual and a semi-automatic process, and describes the methodology, quality taxonomy and the tools’ system architecture, user perspective and extensibility.
Abstract: Linked Open Data (LOD) comprises of an unprecedented volume of structured datasets on the Web. However, these datasets are of varying quality ranging from extensively curated datasets to crowdsourced and even extracted data of relatively low quality. We present a methodology for assessing the quality of linked data resources, which comprises of a manual and a semi-automatic process. In this paper we focus on the manual process where the first phase includes the detection of common quality problems and their representation in a quality problem taxonomy. The second phase comprises of the evaluation of a large number of individual resources, according to the quality problem taxonomy via crowdsourcing. This process is implemented by the tool TripleCheckMate wherein a user assesses an individual resource and evaluates each fact for correctness. This paper focuses on describing the methodology, quality taxonomy and the tools’ system architecture, user perspective and extensibility.
61 citations