Crowdsourcing

• Who's using user-added metadata?
  • Successes and Failures
  • Importing (Ingesting) or Exporting
• What types of metadata fields are good candidates for crowd-sourced metadata?
• What effective incentives can be provided for metadata entry?
• Mechanical Turk
  • Used by Amazon
  • Looks computer generated, human created
• What possible legal issues might there be with crowd-sourced metadata?
• What quality control or authority control systems can be implemented?
  • What reputation systems might be employed to handle quality / authority issues?
• What methods of integration could their be with non-user generated metadata?
• Controlled Vocabularies
  • There must be some consideration of domain-specific vocabularies
  • One size does not fit all
• Awareness - Users must be aware of crowd-sourcing features
  • Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Public Relations