[okfn-labs] Crowdcrafting + reference lists = crowdsource lists of stuff?

Thu Feb 21 13:56:08 UTC 2013

Isn't crowd-sourcing this stuff pretty much what wikidata does?

For reference data, I'm still a big defender of "one neat authoritative
source" rather than "everyone's opinion" - the whole point there is that it
should be as stable as humanly possible rather than a constant negotiation
:)

Still, keen to see how this goes!

- Friedrich

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been recently wondering whether it might be possible to use
> Crowdcrafting to crowdsource lists of things. A fairly standard case would
> be finding an X for every Y, where Y is something like:
>
>   * Every country in the world
>   * Every city in a given country
>   * Every state/region in a given country
>   * Every public body in given country
>
> For the X you might want to have one field for the piece of information
> that you're after and another field for the URL that you found it on.
>
> For Y, there might be some standard reference lists that you could use
> (like lists of countries around the world, or cities in a given country),
> or you might also want to upload a list yourself.
>
> I guess a publicly editable Google Docs spreadsheet might well be the best
> thing to do in the first instance, but thought that it also could be
> interesting to have things like % done, possibility of multiple respondents
> to verify a given response, etc.
>
> Could Crowdcrafting easily be used for this sort of thing?
>
> J.
>
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