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Crowdsourcing as Public Engagement
Alastair Dunning Digitisation Programme Manager
20th September 2011
Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship Conference, New York
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Crowdsourcing as Public Engagement
@alastairdunning
a.dunning (AT) jisc.ac.uk
http://www.slideshare.net/xcia0069/crowdsourcing-as-public-engagement
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JISC – Network, Services, Innovation, Includes Content (http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk)
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imagine ten thousand members of the
general public outside the entrance to your
library ....
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qualms?maybe.
but you would not just dismiss them
out of hand
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this is crowdsourcing/community content.
about how we engage public(s) with collections,
research, online resources
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contributions to the oxford english dictionary
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventuresinlibrarianship/500218879/
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wikipedia - a massive crowdsourcing project
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Since 2008, Australian digitised newspapers invited transcriptions, very popular
with local and family
historians – 47,168,258 lines of c.3m pages of
newspapers corrected
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eBird since 2002 –
1.5m observations
in one month!
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World Archives Project - Commercial publishers involved
in crowdsourcing as well
91,000 contributors.
98.4 million records indexed
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how do you engage publics in some of the
academy’s most boring and labourious tasks?
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engaging, slick interfaces, innovative
games, and good communications will help exploit public(s)
interest
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exploit?
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• exploit?• do we want users
exploited?• will they get bored?• how do we sustain
their interest?
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“it will be essential to avoid developing
intellectual capital from others’ resources without
helping them to grow their cultural capital.”
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hmm. what project do this?
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volunteers have their own timescales
sustaining that engagement via
recognition
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need to think of crowdsourcing as part of
larger public engagement mission;
not a single project but culturally embedded
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universities, cultural heritage institutions, and
other related bodies need
to ...
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• increase numbers• raise awareness
• inform, but listen and respond
• get donations• create community
cohesion
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those ten thousand cataloguers are part of
your broader remit. And maybe helpful for more than cataloguing
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References
JISC (http://www.jisc.ac.uk) and portal to JISC Content (http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/)
Trove – Australian Newspapers - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
eBird - http://ebird.org/
Leaf Watch (Conkers) - http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/conker-tree-science-leaf-watch/id445371129?mt=8
World Archives Project - http://community.ancestry.com/wap
fold.it - http://fold.it/
Digital Koot - http://www.digitalkoot.fi/en
Digitisation, Curation and Two Way Engagement
RunCoCo - http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/
Great War Archive - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en
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Sources of Big Numbers
Wikipedia – Wikimedia Strategic Plan up to 2015, p 4-8
Trove – Trove Statistics (as of 14th September 2011)
eBird – About eBird (accessed 14th September 2011)
World Archives Project – Public Tweet (14th September 2011)