Crowd-sourcing and author submission as alternatives to professional curation

Database

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Karp, Peter D ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST; CROWDSOURCING; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROWDSOURCING; DATA CURATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85016132517     PISSN: 17580463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/database/baw149     Document Type: Review

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