Crowdsourcing

1. Who's using user-added metadata?

• Successes and Failures
• Importing (Ingesting) or Exporting

2. What types of metadata fields are good candidates for crowd-sourced metadata? 3. What effective incentives can be provided for metadata entry? 4. Mechanical Turk

• Used by Amazon
• Looks computer generated, human created

5. What possible legal issues might there be with crowd-sourced metadata? 6. What quality control or authority control systems can be implemented?

• What reputation systems might be employed to handle quality / authority issues?

7. What methods of integration could their be with non-user generated metadata? 8. Controlled Vocabularies

• There must be some consideration of domain-specific vocabularies
• One size does not fit all

9. Awareness - Users must be aware of crowd-sourcing features

• Marketing
• Advertising
• Public Relations