[open-bibliography] PyBossa crowdsourcing & other new OKFN stuff

Mon Aug 20 14:20:28 UTC 2012

Hi Tom,

I've just seen your message to the Open Biblio list below.

Great to hear that you can see applications for PyBossa for bibliographic
data. If you have any further specific ideas be sure to copy in the Open
Bibliography Developers'
List<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openbiblio-dev> as
there are already a number of people working in the field who have ideas
along the lines you suggest. (I'm happy to intro you personally if that
would be helpful).

Re: OKFN projects and updates about them, your feedback is really helpful.
We're currently re-designing our website and the end result will make it
much easier to find and track OKFN projects.

In the meantime, please make sure that you...

(1) Sign up to OKFN
Discuss<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss/>.
This is where all our projects are announced.
(2) Sign up to OKFN Labs
<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-labs>and have visited the
Labs
site <http://okfnlabs.org/>. PyBossa updates and those from other smaller
OKFN projects are all sent there. The Labs list is currently brimming with
activity and exciting ideas, so it's an exiting place to be!

Do let me know if there is any more information you need in the meantime.

All the best,
Sam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:53 PM
Subject: [open-bibliography] PyBossa crowdsourcing & other new OKFN stuff
To: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
<open-bibliography at lists.okfn.org>

So apparently the PyBossa which was mentioned in passing on the other
thread is a free, hosted crowd sourcing solution which is under
development by the OKFN.  It's hosted at pybossa.com and is so named
because it's a reimplementation in Python of the Bossa component of
the Berkeley's BOINC project
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BossaIntro

There's a bunch of bibliographic data tasks which could be crowd
sourced, such as reviewing the validity of proposed author merges or
other significant changes, but I'm also interested in the more general
question about how one discovers new OKFN projects.

Is there a central announcement mailing list somewhere?  It seems I'm
constantly stumbling across new projects.  Sometimes it's just an
existing project that's taken a new name (e.g. DataHub), but often its
something truly new that I've just never heard of.  It'd be great if
there was a low overhead way of keeping up.  Recommendations?

Tom

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