What is crowdsourcing?
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WHAT IS CROWDSOURCING?
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RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
Volunteers can help achieve amazing things – work that couldn’t otherwise be done.
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Crowdsourcing 1.0
The Oxford English Dictionary was crowd-sourced. A plea by the Philological Society in 1879 read: ‘A thousand readers are wanted, and confidently asked for, to complete the work… Any one can help.’
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Crowdsourcing 2.0What’s different in the Internet age?
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Crowdsourcing 2.0: Wikipedia
Launched in 2001
470 million unique visitors monthly
4,460,985 articles in English
Currently more than 76,000 active contributors working on more than 31,000,000 articles in 285 languages
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
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Crowdsourcing asks people to complete tasks that cannot be done automatically…
The Newlyn Exhibition, by Joan GillchrestOil on Board, 1979
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What can be done?
• Transcribing hand-written text into digital form• Tagging images to aid discovery and preservation• Tagging audio files to aid discovery and re-use• Commenting on content or participating in
discussions in online communities• Recording experiences or memories as oral history• Scanning or photographing important historical
objects from a personal or family collection
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Why crowdsource?
• Add content• Add value• Analyse large data sets• Open up discussion• Educate• Create or widen networks• Encourage participation• Transform access to resources• Enable new research questions
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Beyond cataloguing…
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Student projects
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WHAT CAN CROWDSOURCING DO FOR YOU?
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What can we learn from crowdsourcing?
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Cultural heritage and wellbeing
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Contact me:
Dr Kathryn EcclesDigital Humanities Champion, University of Oxfordhttp://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institutehttp://www.oii.ox.ac.uk
Email me: [email protected] me on Twitter: @KathrynEccles