[okfn-labs] Some general question about PyBossa

Mon Jul 16 15:10:36 UTC 2012

Dear Rufus,

Thank you for the clear reply to my questions. This allows me to proceed for now. If anything additional pops up, I will surely get back with a reply to this list.

I'll keep you posted on our progress!

Best,

Maarten

Op 16 jul. 2012, om 16:59 heeft Rufus Pollock het volgende geschreven:

> On 16 July 2012 13:46, Maarten Brinkerink <mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> As a result of a brainstorm with some Dutch heritage institutions, I would like to ask a few general questions about the PyBossa framework. Disclaimer: I'm not a developer, so please forgive me my lack of technological knowledge.
> 
> Welcome :-)
> 
>> Question one: Can PyBossa currently be used to set up a crowdsourcing project to collect 'free tags' (for still images)? The current examples based on PyBossa - as far as I am aware - seem to focus on 'assignments' with fixed answers.
> 
> Yes, PyBossa can be used for crowdsourcing project for free tags for
> images -- this would be very easy to do (probably a matter of 20m to
> alter the existing flickerperson app for example). You can already see
> an example of a richer image classification app in the melanoma
> example:
> 
> http://pybossa.com/app/melanoma/presenter
> 
> Doing simple tagging would be *even* easier than this ...
> 
>> Question two: Can PyBossa currently export data to - for instance - an API of a collection database?
> 
> Yes and no.
> 
> Yes in that getting data (e.g. results of running tasks) from PyBossa
> is *really* easy as it has a simple RESTful JSON API:
> 
> E.g. to get all the result from the flickrperson image classification I just do:
> 
> http://pybossa.com/api/app?short_name=flickrperson => gives the me the
> ID of this app (45)
> http://pybossa.com/api/taskrun?app_id=45&limit=200 => gives me the
> first 200 runs of this app
> 
> No because you'd need to write a connector to get this automatically
> exported to another database. However, writing this connector would be
> *really* easy ...
> 
>> Question three: Can an institution that uses PyBossa for a crowdsourcing project currently monitor the contributions of an individual logged in user?
> 
> Yes. You can get the taskruns done by a given user if you know their user_id.
> 
>> Thanks in advance for you reply! Please let me know if I need to elaborate on my questions.
> 
> This sounds a really interesting use case and we'd love to help get
> this working :-)
> 
> Rufus
> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Maarten Brinkerink
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