[okfn-labs] Some general question about PyBossa

Mon Jul 23 10:46:07 UTC 2012

Dear Daniel,

Open Badges is indeed interesting in this regard, but it is not only about introducing an award system for the students, but also about teachers assessing the actual activity and contributions. I'm not sure if Open Badges also allows for the latter. 

Best,

Maarten

Op 23 jul. 2012, om 12:19 heeft Daniel Lombraña González het volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Maarten Brinkerink <mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
> 
> Thank you for your response. The tracking of user activity in this use case was mainly of importance because it would be uses by students as part of their grade for 'cultural education'. Therefore teachers have to be able to asses if the students have put in enough effort to qualify for a good grade.
> 
> This sounds good!!! I've been thinking in linking PyBossa with the Open Badges proposal from the Mozilla Foundation and the P2P University as a good way to measure skills from our volunteers. Do you know Open Badges? Would be useful for you if we would a system like that?
> 
> 
> Hope this explains the requirement.
> 
> Yes!, thanks a lot!! 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Maarten
> 
> Op 23 jul. 2012, om 10:00 heeft Daniel Lombraña González het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> So sorry for not answering earlier, but I've been away a few days. 
>> 
>> Maarten, Rufus has answered all the questions for you, but feel free to ask again :-)
>> 
>> I think the only missing part for the moment in PyBossa is the possibility of tracking users via the web interface (it is in our todo list). 
>> 
>> For the moment, we are thinking about which metrics will be good for every project, so we have not added yet anything too specific (i.e. PyBossa provides a Leader board with the top users and top apps). Thus, if you don't mind, I would like to know what metrics would you like to have from the users, so we can understand a bit better this issue.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Maarten Brinkerink <mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:
>> 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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