The MoDas Workshop is a concluding event for the MoDaS grant. The workshop serves both as an assessment for the results obtained in the MoDaS project, as well as for results dissemination and brainstorming on the challenges still laying ahead. The workshop brings together members of the project with the best world experts in crowdsourcing, human-focused data management, and critically related topics.

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Crowd-based data sourcing democratizes data collection, cutting companies' and researchers' reliance on stagnant, overused datasets and bears great potential for revolutionizing our information world. Yet, triumph has so far been limited to only a handful of successful  projects such as Wikipedia and IMDb, or in large companies such as Google or Amazon. This comes, notably, from the difficulty of managing huge volumes of data and users of questionable quality and reliability. Every single initiative had to battle, almost from  scratch, the same non-trivial challenges. The ad hoc solutions, even  when successful, are application-specific and rarely sharable. In the MoDaS project we are developing solid scientific foundations for web-scale data sourcing. We believe that such a principled approach is essential to obtaining knowledge of superior quality, to realizing the task more effectively and automatically, and being able to reuse solutions, thereby accelerating the pace of practical  adoption of this technology that is revolutionizing our life. This  will open the way for developing a new and otherwise unattainable  universe of knowledge in a wide range of applications, from scientific fields to social and economic ones. 

The workshop will bring together members of the MoDaS project with the best world experts in crowdsourcing, human-focused data management, and critically related topics. The workshop will serve both as an assessment for the results obtained in the MoDaS project as well as for results dissemination and brainstorming on the challenges still laying ahead. 

Program chairs: Daniel Deutch, Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University) 

 

The MoDaS Workshop is Supported By:

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The European Research Council under the European Community's
Seventh Framework Programme/ ERC grant MoDaS.

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