| Description |
1 online esource (xxii, 283 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| ISBN |
9781472410238 electronic book |
| Note |
Electronic book available via EBL Ebook Library. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Crowdsourcing our cultural heritage : introduction / Mia Ridge, Open University, UK -- Part I. Case studies -- Crowdsourcing in Brooklyn / Shelley Bernstein (Brooklyn Museum, USA) -- Old weather : approaching collections from a different angle / Lucinda Blaser (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK) -- "Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work" : transcribe Bentham and crowdsourcing manuscript collections / Tim Causer (Bentham Project), Melissa Terras (Department of Information Studies, and Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, UK) -- Build, analyze, and generalize : community transcription of the papers of the War Department and the development of Scripto / Sharon M. Leon (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, USA) -- What's on the menu? Crowdsourcing at the New York Public Library / Michael Lascarides (National Library of New Zealand) and Ben Vershbow (New York Public Library) -- What's Welsh for "crowdsourcing"? Citizen science and community engagement at the National Library of Wales / Lyn Lewis Dafis, Lorna M. Hughes (National Library of Wales) and Rhian James (University of Wales), UK -- Waisda? Making videos findable through crowdsourced annotations / Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Riste Gligorov and Michiel Hildebrand (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), The Netherlands -- Your paintings tagger : crowdsourcing descriptive metadata for a national virtual collection / Kathryn Eccles (Oxford Internet Institute) and Andrew Greg (University of Glasgow), UK -- Part II. Challenges and opportunities of cultural heritage crowdsourcing -- Crowding out the archivist? Locating crowdsourcing within the broader landscape of participatory archives / Alexandra Eveleigh (University College London), UK -- How the crowd can surprise us : humanities crowdsourcing and the creation of knowledge / Stuart Dunn and Mark Hedges (Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, UK) -- The role of open authority in a collaborative web / Lori Byrd Phillips (The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA) -- Making crowdsourcing compatible with the missions and values of cultural heritage organizations / Trevor Owens (Library of Congress, USA). |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Note |
Print version also available. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Claremont : Ebooks Corporation, [2014] |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Series |
Digital research in the arts and humanities.
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| Subject |
Cultural property -- Management.
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Cultural property -- Philosophy.
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Human computation.
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Digital media -- Social aspects.
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Museums -- Collection management.
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Collection management (Libraries)
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Library materials -- Digitization.
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Archival materials -- Digitization.
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| Other Author |
Ridge, Mia, editor.
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