Stanford's linguist Asya Pereltsvaig, together with cartographer Jake Coolidge, is the author of a map of the ethno-linguistic mosaic of the Caucasus region. The method they adopted is particularly interesting, as they used crowsourcing techniques to refine the representation provided by a map obtained rrawing on previously available ethnic and linguistic maps, supplemented by demographic data from other sources: "Despite these achievements, mistakes and imprecisions have crept into these maps, as we expected they might. In order to identify such errors, we turned to “crowdediting”—inspired by the idea of “crowdsourcing”—and welcomed comments and corrections from informed readers, especially those who live in the Caucasus or have done fieldwork there. More than a dozen readers answered our call, writing both in the Disqus comments section and on our Facebook page with corrections, suggestions for amendments, and links to additional maps to draw on."
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