5.4 - Crowdsourcing Vocabulary

The practice of obtaining input, ideas, services, or data by enlisting the contributions of a large group of people, typically via the Internet

Crowdsourcing

Projects where members of the public contribute data or analysis to support scientific research — often tasks that computers alone cannot easily complete. Example

Citizen Science

Large-scale cooperative projects where contributors voluntarily create and maintain shared resources. Examples

Open Collaboration

Using human intelligence to complete tasks that are difficult for computers, often embedded within normal online activities. Examples

Human Computation

Software whose source code is made publicly available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, often under specific license terms

Open Source