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Crowdsourcing systems on the World-Wide Web

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Anhai Doan,

Raghu Ramakrishnan,

Alon Y. HalevyAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 54, Issue 4

Pages 86 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/1924421.1924442

Published: 01 April 2011 Publication History

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The practice of crowdsourcing is transforming the Web and giving rise to a new field.

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April 2011

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DOI:10.1145/1924421

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