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Reputation Systems for Open Collaboration.

The article presents an overview of the benefits and challenges that are associated with reputation systems that are used in open collaborations in academic research and in content creation, including text creation, computer document creation and computer software creation. A discussion of the ways...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 8; pp. 81 - 88
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2011
Subjects:
Content analysis
Computer science
Information technology
Computer programming
Prejudices
Cooperative inquiry
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents an overview of the benefits and challenges that are associated with reputation systems that are used in open collaborations in academic research and in content creation, including text creation, computer document creation and computer software creation. A discussion of the ways in which content-driven reputation systems can be made resistant to many forms of bias, can be used to derive feedback from analyzing content and interactions and can be used to scale to very large computer systems, is presented.