Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective

Summary: Tutorial frames crowdsourcing as a data-management primitive for on-demand human computation in tasks from entity resolution to contextual analytics. It synthesizes platform evolution and core challenges in quality, latency, scheduling, cost, privacy, and social concerns. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h5e35e5c431cb33db
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.0999674e-05
Overall Rank: 5,478 | 63.29%
DOI: 10.14778/3402755.3402809

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin; WalmartLabs)
2. Michael J. Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
3. Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
4. Tim Kraska (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{doan_vldb11,
        title = {{Crowdsourcing Applications and Platforms: A Data Management Perspective}},
        author = {Doan, AnHai and Franklin, Michael J. and Kossmann, Donald and Kraska, Tim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1508--1513},
        doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402809},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402809},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,842	Crowd Mining	2013	SIGMOD	7.9345347e-05
4,941	Crowdsourced Top-k Queries by Confidence-Aware Pairwise Judgments	2017	SIGMOD	6.3314694e-05
6,791	Crowdsourced Data Management: Overview and Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	5.6647309e-05
12,357	A Confidence-Aware Top-k Query Processing Toolkit on Crowdsourcing	2017	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
92	CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00034613457
257	Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People	2011	CIDR	0.00022914527
260	Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases	2011	CIDR	0.00022866018
788	Human-Assisted Graph Search: It’s Okay to Ask Questions	2011	VLDB	0.00013946699
1,114	Google Fusion Tables: Web-Centered Data Management and Collaboration	2010	SIGMOD	0.00011939972
1,120	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011920747
3,924	Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs	2009	SIGMOD	6.9044317e-05
4,147	Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers	2011	CIDR	6.765215e-05
6,449	User Feedback as a First Class Citizen in Information Integration Systems	2011	CIDR	5.7639319e-05

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