Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech

Month: July 2016

  • Interviewed for IEEE Spectrum article on crowdsourcing

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    IEEE Spectrum, the flagship magazine of IEEE, interviewed Dr. Luther for an article about running successful crowdsourcing campaigns. Some of his comments: After a project’s launch, says Kurt Luther, director of the Crowd Lab at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, collaborators must maintain open lines of communication and remember that contributors are real human beings. Developers,…

  • Mapping the Fourth of July goes public

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    Kurt Luther
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    Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era has launched! Mapping the Fourth is a crowdsourced digital archive that explores how Americans celebrated the Fourth of July while their nation was being torn apart. It is built with Incite, a plug-in developed by the Crowd Lab for the Omeka content management system. This project,…

  • Wikimedia funds enhancements to ProveIt

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    The Wikimedia Foundation has awarded a grant to Felipe Schenone to make improvements to ProveIt. Dr. Luther led the team that developed ProveIt when he was at Georgia Tech. ProveIt is a Wikipedia gadget that provides a friendly user interface for managing references in Wikipedia articles. The gadget has since been integrated into the English-language Wikipedia…