Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of BossaOverview

Timestamp:

Jul 21, 2008, 3:26:40 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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BossaOverview

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 the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks
 that require human intelligence, knowledge, or cognitive skills.
-Examples of such projects include Stardust@home and GalaxyZoo.
-Bossa serves roughly the same function as Amazon's Mechanical Turk,
-but is simpler and more powerful, and is open source.
+Examples of such projects include [http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Stardust@home]
+and [http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ GalaxyZoo].
+Bossa simplifies the task of creating projects like these.
+It serves roughly the same function as
+[http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Amazon's Mechanical Turk],
+but is simpler and more powerful, does not involve payment, and is open source.
 
 Volunteers have different skill levels; they may do tasks well or poorly,
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 This is done using the following techniques:
 
- * Project-specific information about jobs and volunteers is stored in PHP objects.  The structure of these objects is determined by the project.  Bossa stores them in a serialized form in the database.
- * Project-specific policies are encoded in PHP '''callback functions''' that are invoked at various points (e.g., when jobs are issued, when they complete, and when they time out).
+ * Project-specific information about jobs and volunteers is stored in PHP '''project data'''.  The structure of these objects is determined by the project.  Bossa stores them in a serialized form in the database.
+ * Project-specific policies are encoded in PHP '''project policy functions''' that are invoked at various points (e.g., when jobs are issued, when they complete, and when they time out).
 
 The mechanisms provided by Bossa include: