Data quality in crowdsourcing for biodiversity research: issues and examples. Pages 75-86 in C. Capineri, M. Haklay, H. Huang, V. Antoniou, J. Kettunen, F. Ostermann, and R. Purves, editors. European handbook of crowdsourced geographic information. Ubiquity Press, London, UK....
Real-time mining of indirectly (i.e., unsolicited, not obtained via a formal reporting form/not originally meant for posting to a specific crowdsourcing effort) self-reported and sousveillance information harvested from aggregates of Twitter and other social network feeds can offer useful data and ...
Such applications are often referred to as 'crowdsourcing' or 'participatory sensing' applications, since they are capitalising on the power of the masses (or 'crowds') and relying on citizen participation to achieve their goals. They are becoming increasingly common these days, thanks to the ...