Kereshetvé
Kereshetvé is a term used in speculative linguistics and digital culture to describe a coordinated, distributed search practice designed to locate obscure information or artifacts within a large digital archive. The practice emphasizes collaboration, transparency, and reproducibility, with searches carried out by a defined cohort of volunteers who share tasks and document each step of the process.
Origin and etymology: The coinage combines the Hungarian verb keresni, meaning to search, with a fictional suffix
Process and methods: A typical kereshetvé campaign begins with a clearly defined objective, selection of search
Variants and scope: Variants include accelerated or kereshetvé-lite campaigns intended for quick hits, and extended kereshetvé-plus
Impact and reception: In speculative discussions, kereshetvé is cited as a model of crowd-based information retrieval
See also: crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, open data.
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