Has anyone used Mechanical Turk?

From: Aaron Rubinstein <arubinstein_at_nyob> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:07:50 -0500 To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

I'm looking at Amazon's Mechanical Turk, https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
to "automate" checking the page order of 11,000 scanned books (some were
scanned backwards by a long out-of-business vendor).

Does anyone on the list have experience using Mechanical Turk?  This is a
time sensitive project so I was hoping to figure out some best practices for
attracting Requestors, and maybe even a sense of how quickly tasks might get
accomplished. 

Thanks, 

Aaron  

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Aaron Rubinstein
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National Yiddish Book Center
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Amherst, MA  01002
arubinstein_at_bikher.org
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