Tag: Citizen Science
Designing for Information Quality in the Era of Repurposable Crowdsourced User-Generated Content
Conventional wisdom holds that expert contributors provide higher quality user-generated content (UGC) than novices. Using the cognitive construct of selective ...
What Makes a Good Crowd? Rethinking the Relationship between Recruitment Strategies and Data Quality in Crowdsourcing
Conventional wisdom dictates that the quality of data collected in a crowdsourcing project is positively related to how knowledgeable the contributors are. Cons...
Do Crowds Go Stale? Exploring the Effects of Crowd Reuse on Data Diversity
Crowdsourcing is increasingly used to engage people to contribute data for a variety of purposes to support decision-making and analysis. A common assumption in...
Can Expertise Impair the Quality of Crowdsourced Data?
It is not uncommon for projects that collect crowdsourced data to be commissioned with incomplete knowledge of data contributors, data consumers, and/or the pur...