Crowdsourcing Needs a Solid Taxonomy

September 6, 2011 / Melody Smith /

Editing by committee is a prolonged and mostly painful process that quite often sends me running away, seeking refuge in my own office, with my own delete key. Crowdsourcing can be very similar. One approach that can help is to have a taxonomy built with categories and terms that apply to the entire industry.

This article was inspired by The Daily Crowd Source’s article, “[Crowd Leader: David Alan Grier] Preparing A Good Crowdsourcing Taxonomy.” It is important that the definitions be refined and the categories not too broad. Only by working with the crowdsourcing space as a whole can we begin to understand the true structure of the field.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Alice Redmond-Neal on September 8, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    This is a four-term taxonomy. The area may need some organization, and four categories are a start. I’m not attuned to the area enough to guess the degree of richness and elaboration needed. Four categories…premature to call it a taxonomy, IMHO.