crowdsourcing and cochrane

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/

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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

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3 key ingredients

NeededDoable

MotivatedSupported Slick

Versatile

Thank you

Acknowledgements

Rupert McShaneCaroline Struthers

Kit Huckvale