Towards an integrated crowdsourcing definition

By Enrique Estellés Arolas, Fernando González-Ladrón-de-Guevara. 2012

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‘Crowdsourcing’ is a relatively recent concept that encompasses many practices. This diversity leads to the blurring of the limits of crowdsourcing that may be identified virtually with any type of internet-based collaborative activity, such as co-creation or user innovation. Varying definitions of crowdsourcing exist, and therefore some authors present certain specific examples of crowdsourcing as paradigmatic, while others present the same examples as the opposite. In this article, existing definitions of crowdsourcing are analysed to extract common elements and to establish the basic characteristics of any crowdsourcing initiative. Based on these existing definitions, an exhaustive and consistent definition for crowdsourcing is presented and contrasted in 11 cases.

Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

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A survey of data fusion in smart city applications (2019, background): “• S3: Participatory Data Sources Participatory data sources include crowdsensing [90], [91] and crowdsourcing [92], [93] data contributed by the personal devices, e.”
AggNet: Deep Learning From Crowds for Mitosis Detection in Breast Cancer Histology Images (2016, background): “C ROWDSOURCING is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organization or a company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via flexible open call, the voluntary undertaking of a task [1].”
Crowdsourcing programming assignments with CrowdSorcerer (2018, background): “Since then, the term has become synonymous with almost any collaborative activity, where typically a large user base provides ideas and services to an organization or some other party [8].”
Using Mechanical Turk to Study Clinical Populations (2013, neutral): “For a discussion on the definition of crowdsourcing, see Estellés-Arolas & Ladrün-de-Guevara, 2012.”
Evaluation on crowdsourcing research: Current status and future direction (2012, background): “To get a comprehensive definition which integrates the rest, Estellés-Arolas and González Ladrón-de-Guevara (2012) synthesize and analyze those existing definitions in the literature and create an integrated crowdsourcing definition.”
A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering (2017, background): “These definitions are still debated in literature and are perhaps, somewhat vague in the context of software engineering (Estellés-Arolas and González-Ladrón-De-Guevara, 2012; Stol and Fitzgerald, 1930 2014c).”
A Survey on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities (2019, background): “An analysis of this can be found in [87]–[89].”
Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information (2016, background): “More recently, Estellés-Arolas and González-Ladrón-de-Guevara [26] examined 32 definitions of crowdsourcing in the literature to produce a single definition as follows: “Crowdsourcing is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organization, or com”
Coworking-spaces: how a phenomenon of the sharing economy builds a novel trend for the workplace and for entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Crowdsourcing refers to the participative completion of a task against some kind of economic or psychologic compensation (Estellés-Arolas and González-Ladrón-de-Guevara 2012).”
We get the algorithms of our ground truths: Designing referential databases in digital image processing (2017, background): “As defined by Estellés-Arolas and González-Ladrón-de-Guevara (2012), crowdsourcing is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organization, or a company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via a…”