Can Crowdsourcing Improve Open Data?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"What happens when open data is wrong? Can crowdsourcing improve it? Often, open data enthusiasts assume that the next step after the release of some government data is a smart phone app or cool visualisation. I’m more interested in collaborating on the data itself. I’ve been working on a project called OpenEcoMaps...."

Link:

http://blog.okfn.org/2011/05/23/can-crowdsourcing-improve-open-data/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.psi oa.crowd oa.uk oa.geo oa.data

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 13:40

Date published:

05/24/2011, 08:43