Via Cynical-C Blog via Waxy.

I do like the crowdsourcing idea. Researchers should adopt the idea and consider involving the interested public in such labor-intensive projects, of course, in a fun way. NASA has one.

White Glove Tracking: Creating a data source together one glove at a time.

There are 10,060 frames of video in Michael Jackson's 5 min 35 sec nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. The White Glove Tracking project (W.G.T.) is an effort to isolate just the white glove from this moment in pop-culture history. Rather then write unnecessarily complex code to find the glove in every frame of the video I am asking for the assistance of 10,060 individual internet users to simply click and drag a box around the glove in one frame. In the end this data will be shared freely for all to download, visualize, and use as an input into other digital systems.

This is an open source project that shares source code and result data (coming soon). Contributors can be credited if they like. The top 10 contributing users will receive a free print of the visualization of the final data set.