What is Crowdsourcing?

On October 29, 2014, the Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives (CCLA) held a 1-hour webinar titled, “Crowdsourcing 101: Fundamentals and Case Studies.” This webinar explored crowdsourcing techniques used increasingly by organizations and institutions seeking to gather vast amounts of new knowledge and participation from online contributors.

Crowdsourcing techniques are increasingly being utilized by organizations and institutions—including libraries and museums—seeking to gather vast amounts of new knowledge and participation from online contributors. In this fast-paced hour-long introduction, you’ll get a handle on “Crowdsourcing Fundamentals” from leading voice in the field Mia Ridge, along with first-person accounts from two exemplar crowdsourcing projects (NYPL, Zooniverse). Learn the basics about implementing crowdsourcing techniques, securing funding, engaging users, and assessing the quality of crowdsourced data, as well as the advantages and challenges of utilizing crowdsourcing.

Resources from Victoria

zooniverse.org
www.operationwardiary.org/
galaxyzoo.org
ancientlives.org
www.oldweather.org/
www.notesfromnature.org/
https://www.facebook.com/OperationWarDiary?ref=hl
https://twitter.com/search?q=operation%20war%20diary&src=typd

Links mentioned in chat

On Frye Museum curation crowdsourcing
Brooklyn’s ‘Split Second’ Experiment
WGBH worked with scholars to curate collections:openvault.wgbh.org
Smithsonian Digital Volunteers Transcription Center
Metadata ‘games’ project at Edinburgh University – still at an early stage but this blog post describes what we’ve done so far.
2048 Game

Resources from Mia

Collection of Crowdsourcing resources on Mia’s blog, Open Objects
National Library of Australia: Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/
FamilySearch https://familysearch.org
Transcribe Bentham http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/
Reading Experience Databasehttp://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/
Tiltfactor’s Metadata Games http://www.metadatagames.org/
British Library Georeferencer http://www.bl.uk/maps/
Micropasts http://micropasts.org/
Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage, edited by Mia Ridgehttp://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472410221
Letters of 1916 http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/diyhistory/

Resources from NYPL

@subsublibrary and @nypl_labs
NYPL Map Warper http://maps.nypl.org
What’s on the Menu http://menus.nypl.org
https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer
NYPL Building Inspector http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/
Knight News Challenge NYC Space/Time Directory: Libraries and Communities Working Together to Build Open Historical Data and Tools for Urban Time Travel

Presentation Slides (PDF)

Presented by:
Mia Ridge, Chair of the Museums Computer Group at Open University and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH); Ben Vershbow, Director of NYPL Digital Library + Labs; Victoria Van Hyning, Digital Humanities postdoctoral fellow at Zooniverse.

You can also view “Crowdsourcing 101” and additional information at the OCLC’s Webjunction website. A very sincere thanks to the OCLC for hosting this wonderful webinar!