Authors: Thomas Kern, Gerald Petz
The term crowdsourcing denotes the outsourcing of tasks for division of labour to a large number of indi- viduals who offer their skills, capacities and intelligence via the internet. Currently these are mostly intrinsically motivated amateurs, who often complete diverse jobs with no or low remuneration. The main intention of the project Semantically Enriched E-Working Platform (SEEWOP) is to make crowdsourcing to an attractive offer for enterprises as e-working method for special fields of activity in addition to conventional working methods. For this purpose Web 2.0 will be combined with Semantic Web technologies, enabling the annota- tion of tasks and their specifications, e-workers and their qualifications as well as results and their quality in machine processable form. Therefore, adequate vocabu- laries and ontologies have to be designed to enable au- tomatic and intelligent division of tasks within the e- worker community. Additionally, a semantic descrip- tion of processes and rules for routine jobs will be de- veloped.