[open-science-dev] PyBOSSA: re-implementing the open source PHP BOSSA framework in Python

Thu Dec 1 08:27:22 UTC 2011

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 13:56, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> On Friday, 25 November 2011, Daniel Lombraña González wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > During a hackfest in Cape Town (Africa at Home), and thanks to the
> collaboration of Rufus Pollock from Okfn, we have started to port and
> improve BOSSA (a volunteer thinking framework) to Python. You can find the
> code here: https://github.com/citizen-cyberscience-centre/pybossa
>
> Right now we have an operational core. Immediate next step is to
> create a demo app. Suggestion is to do  basic image classification
> writing the task frontend in javascript + html (in a way that others
> can copy and paste) and to scrape photos from flickr commons. See this
> issue: <https://github.com/citizen-cyberscience-centre/pybossa/issues/10>
>
> @Daniel: I believe you have already started on this (in collaboration
> with gentleman from EpiCollect). How far have we come?
>

Well, not too far, sorry. I'm busy with the other projects this week, but I
will work on this for sure, trust me ;)

>
> We'd also like to sign up some projects to try out the new platform so
> if you've got a project please let us know and we can work to get this
> running on PyBossa.
>
> (@Lucas: I was thinking of porting the DataDigitizer work -- would you
> and colleages be interested in working on this / porting what you've
> been working on?)
>
> > BOSSA is a framework that allows the creation of projects where the
> humans are the CPUs. Imagine a project where an algorithm has to answer the
> following question: does this photograph contain a dog? While for
> algorithms, usually, this will be very complicated for humans is a fairly
> simple task. BOSSA helps in the creation of this kind of projects,
> providing tools for managing users, jobs, etc.
>
> The summary we have in the PyBossa README at the moment is:
>
> <quote>
> PyBossa is an open source platform for crowd-sourcing online
> (volunteer) assistance to perform tasks that require human cognition,
> knowledge or intelligence (e.g. image classification, transcription,
> information location etc).
>
> PyBossa was inspired by the BOSSA_ crowdsourcing engine but is written
> in python (hence the name!). It can be used for any distributed tasks
> application but was initially developed to help scientists and other
> researchers crowd-source human problem-solving skills!
> .. _BOSSA: http://bossa.berkeley.edu/
> </quote>
>
> I think we should do blog post on this asap to let the wider community
> know what is going on.
>
> >
> > During the Africa at Home hackfest, we were in contact with the main
> developer of BOSSA and agreed on porting the code to Python.
>
> Can we invite him to this list :-)
>
> >
> > This new implementation will allow running a central service, decoupling
> the task interface from BOSSA. This will allow the creation of different
> projects based on any programming language as the core system will provide
> a nice API to request and submit jobs using JSON. BOSSA will take care of
> distributing the tasks among its users.
>
> We're directly porting the BOSSA sql structure and domain model.
> However, we're making this available via a RESTful JSON web API which
> should be easier to connect to than in current BOSSA setup where you
> have to have your frontend run on BOSSA platform and use PHP function
> calls.
>
> Top priority here is to document the API so frontend devs can write
> against it.
>

Yes, I will need that too. I was reading the code for starting to code the
app (to feed the DB). I hope that while I'm developing it I will create at
the  same time the documentation or something usable.

Cheers,

Daniel

>
> Rufus
>

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