mechanical turk

The Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk) is a Amazon Web Service that allows site owners to outsource tasks requiring human intelligence at relatively low cost. Mturk may be used for a wide range of purposes including image labeling, transcription, categorization, and spam filtering in various fields and industries not limited to e-commerce, research, online community, social networking. In order for Drupal to fully utilize Mturk, I propose designing an easy to install module to work with Mturk from the Drupal interface.

Years ago I had an Elancer write a module for submitting Mechanical Turk jobs (HITS) from drupal nodes. I've recently updated the code and thought that others may find it useful. Right now it is fine-tuned for transcription jobs, but it could be made more generic.

This module covers only Mechanical Turk, not other Amazon services as does the AWS module.