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Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Sector:approaches, challenges and issues
Mia Ridge, @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library
Crowd-sourcing, Co-creation and Co-curation in the Cultural SectorScottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation
Glasgow, December 2015
What is crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing (Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, Wired, 2006): 'taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call'
Or, as Clay Shirky's cognitive surplus, 'the spare processing power of millions of human brains‘Or, simply, volunteering online
Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage
Asking the public to help with tasks that contribute to a shared, significant goal or research interest related to cultural heritage collections or knowledge.
The activities and/or goals should be inherently rewarding.
• 19th Century natural history collecting
• 1849 Smithsonian weather observation project
• 1857, 1879 Oxford English Dictionary appeals
•WWII Soldiers given a Field Collector's Manual in Natural History by the US Museum of Natural History
James Murray, editor, OED, with contributor slips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James-Murray.jpg
Crowdsourcing before the web
British Library Sound Maps: collecting
Your accents http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-Maps/Your-Accentshttp://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-Maps/UK-Soundmap
Participatory project models
Contributory The public contributes data to a project designed
by the organisationCollaborative
Public and organisation are active partners, but project is lead by the organisation
Co-creative All partners define goals together
(Bonney et al, 2009,Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE)
Going off-piste
'...None of the above is ready to send to you as I have more research to do'
https://www.flickr.com/photos/swedish_heritage_board/10207262464
Thank you!Questions?
Mia Ridge @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library
‘Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Sector: approaches, challenges and issues’Crowd-sourcing, Co-creation and Co-curation in the Cultural Sector
Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation