Crowd Scripting

One of the interesting concepts in the Social Network Analysis domain is Collaborative Authoring. Collaborative authoring allows multiple users to add and modify content of a document. People contribute to collaborative environments by expressing their views/opinions on various topics. This is seen in popular websites like Quora, Wikipedia and in various blogs and discussion forums. Since multiple users are allowed to add/modify content, one of the pitfalls that can be noticed is the lack of reliability and stability. Authors may not necessarily be well versed in the topics they write about, they may lack the expertise to provide accurate descriptions, giving room for errors, misinformation and bias.

Crowd Scripting aims at solving the pitfalls of collaborative authoring. Ordell Ugo currently  is doing research in this area to provide an efficient framework that supports Crowd Scripting. It determines the people who are most suitable for providing content for a given context. The strongest subset of such people is obtained and they are allowed to contribute to a document of a particular theme.