crowdsourcing and cochrane
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Anna Noel-Storr, from #CochraneTech Symposium, Québec 2013TRANSCRIPT
Crowdsourcing and Cochrane
Draw me a sheep…
Crowdsourcing is…
very popular
Crowdsourcing is…
…the practice of obtaining needed
services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a
large group of people, and
especially from an online
community, rather than from
traditional employees or suppliers.
…tasks are outsourced to an undefined public
Amazon Mechanical Turk
HITs = Human Intelligence Tasks
Draw me a sheepTheSheepMarket.com is a collection of 10, 000 sheep made by
workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Using the crowd for science
Zooniverse www.zooniverse.org
Biology
Biology
• One single account• “dive on in”
Biology
• One single account• “dive on in”
“this commitment to producing real research – so that you know we’re not wasting your time – is at the heart of everything we do”
Citizen science
http://www.scistarter.com/
Slick process1
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3
Why consider it
Producing vast amounts of evidence
Quality vs Speed vs Capacity
How could it work?
One BIG task Smaller tasks Nano tasks
Clinically relevant question
which needs an answer
Where are we headed?Embase: becomes an integral part of your day
Screen 5 citations per day x 31 000 contributors
Currently…
QReview group
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3 key ingredients
NeededDoable
MotivatedSupported Slick
Versatile
Thank you
Acknowledgements
Rupert McShaneCaroline Struthers
Kit Huckvale