Is anyone using the Mechanical Turk for topic map authoring purposes?
Would require breaking authoring into small tasks and perhaps capturing some information in the background.
Could be a refinement step to follow automatic data extraction or evaluation.
Use the LAMP stack for data collection.
Once an authoring framework was in place, just a question of populating it.
Would appreciate notes from anyone taking this approach to creating topic maps.
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Before anyone complains this would not be as precise as the brooding intellect approach to topic map authoring, yes, yes, you are right.
Just as printers rely on Danielle Steele and similar authors for their livelihood, semantic technologies, including topic maps, need to get their intellectual skirts dirty.