Open crowdsourcing arrives with PyBossa (The H)

[Posted June 8, 2012 by n8willis]

The H looks at PyBossa, a Python framework developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation to build crowdsourcing features. "Pulling together volunteers to work on tasks can be a difficult logistical task, especially if the tasks are small like classifying the contents of a picture or transcribing some text from an existing document. For paid work like that, solutions like Amazon's Mechanical Turk divide up the load and then make the tasks available to a pool of workers, but for open data, open source or other open projects, there haven't been many options until the arrival of PyBossa."

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