December 2008
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Crowdsourcing for Indexing and Abstracting: Can it Work?
Dorothea Salo posed this question of FriendFeed: Crowdsourced abstracting and indexing service. The next big thing, or a really dumb pipe dream? MPOW has a contract to provide indexing and abstracts for TRIS, the main transportation database for North America. The quality of indexing and abstracting varies, because most of the people performing the work [...]
