Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage

Mia Ridge (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-70617-0 (ISBN)

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Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. This book brings together for the first time the collected wisdom of international leaders in the theory and practice of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage. It features eight accessible case studies of groundbreaking projects from leading cultural heritage and academic institutions, and four thought-provoking essays that reflect on the wider implications of this engagement for participants and on the institutions themselves. Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage is more than a framework for creating content: as a form of mutually beneficial engagement with the collections and research of museums, libraries, archives and academia, it benefits both audiences and institutions. However, successful crowdsourcing projects reflect a commitment to developing effective interface and technical designs. This book will help practitioners who wish to create their own crowdsourcing projects understand how other institutions devised the right combination of source material and the tasks for their ’crowd’. The authors provide theoretically informed, actionable insights on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage, outlining the context in which their projects were created, the challenges and opportunities that informed decisions during implementation, and reflecting on the results. This book will be essential reading for information and cultural management professionals, students and researchers in universities, corporate, public or academic libraries, museums and archives.

Mia Ridge specialises in user experience design for participation and engagement in cultural heritage and the digital humanities, and has advised organisations such as the BBC, Public Catalogue Foundation, The Science Museum Group and the V&A Museum on usability, audience participation and crowdsourcing. Mia has lead workshops teaching design for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage and academia for groups such as the British Library’s Digital Scholarship programme and the Digital Humanities 2013 conference. Her research at the Open University focuses on effective design for participatory digital history and the collaborative enhancement of historical materials.

Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage; 1: Case Studies; 1: Crowdsourcing in Brooklyn; 2: Old Weather; 3: ‘Many Hands Make Light Work. Many Hands Together Make Merry Work' 1; 4: Build, Analyse and Generalise; 5: What's on the Menu?; 6: What's Welsh for ‘Crowdsourcing'? Citizen Science and Community Engagement at the National Library of Wales; 7: Waisda?: Making Videos Findable through Crowdsourced Annotations; 8: Your Paintings Tagger; 2: Challenges and Opportunities of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing; 9: Crowding Out the Archivist? Locating Crowdsourcing within the Broader Landscape of Participatory Archives; 10: How the Crowd Can Surprise Us; 11: The Role of Open Authority in a Collaborative Web; 12: Making Crowdsourcing Compatible with the Missions and Values of Cultural Heritage Organisations

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-138-70617-5 / 1138706175
ISBN-13	978-1-138-70617-0 / 9781138706170
Zustand	Neuware