The four pillars of crowdsourcing: A reference model

Authors: Hosseini, M., Phalp, K., Taylor, J. and Ali, R.

Journal: Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science

eISSN: 2151-1357

ISSN: 2151-1349

DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861072

Abstract:

Crowdsourcing is an emerging business model where tasks are accomplished by the general public; the crowd. Crowdsourcing has been used in a variety of disciplines, including information systems development, marketing and operationalization. It has been shown to be a successful model in recommendation systems, multimedia design and evaluation, database design, and search engine evaluation. Despite the increasing academic and industrial interest in crowdsourcing, there is still a high degree of diversity in the interpretation and the application of the concept. This paper analyses the literature and deduces a taxonomy of crowdsourcing. The taxonomy is meant to represent the different configurations of crowdsourcing in its main four pillars: the crowdsourcer, the crowd, the crowdsourced task and the crowdsourcing platform. Our outcome will help researchers and developers as a reference model to concretely and precisely state their particular interpretation and configuration of crowdsourcing. © 2014 IEEE.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21903/

Source: Scopus