Crowdsourcing techniques are increasingly being utilized by organizations and institutions—including libraries and museums—seeking to gather vast amounts of new knowledge and participation from online contributors. In this fast-paced hour-long introduction, you'll get a handle on "Crowdsourcing Fundamentals" from leading voice in the field Mia Ridge, along with first-person accounts from two exemplar crowdsourcing projects (NYPL, Zooniverse). Learn the basics about implementing crowdsourcing techniques, securing funding, engaging users, and assessing the quality of crowdsourced data, as well as the advantages and challenges of utilizing crowdsourcing.

This webinar is part of the newly formed Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives (CCLA). Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the goal of CCLA is to forge national/international partnerships to advance the use of crowdsourcing technologies, tools, user experiences, and platforms to help libraries, museums, archives, and more.

Presented by: Mia Ridge, Chair of the Museums Computer Group at Open University and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH); Ben Vershbow, Director of NYPL Digital Library + Labs; Victoria Van Hyning, Digital Humanities postdoc, Zooniverse

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Related Resources and Links

• Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives
• Resources from Mia
  • Collection of Crowdsourcing resources on Mia's blog, Open Objects
    
  • National Library of Australia: Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/
  • FamilySearch https://familysearch.org
  • Transcribe Bentham http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/
  • Reading Experience Database http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/
  • Tiltfactor’s Metadata Games http://www.metadatagames.org/
  • British Library Georeferencer http://www.bl.uk/maps/
  • Micropasts http://micropasts.org/
  • Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage, edited by Mia Ridge
• NYPL Labs
  • @subsublibrary and @nypl_labs
  • NYPL Map Warper http://maps.nypl.org
  • What's on the Menu http://menus.nypl.org
    
  • https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer
  • NYPL Building Inspector http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/
• Resources from Victoria
  • zooniverse.org
  • galaxyzoo.org
  • ancientlives.org
  • www.oldweather.org/
  • www.notesfromnature.org/
  • https://www.facebook.com/OperationWarDiary?ref=hl
  • https://twitter.com/search?q=operation%20war%20diary&src=typd
• Shared in Chat
  • On Frye Museum curation crowdsourcing
  • Brooklyn's 'Split Second' Experiment
  • WGBH worked with scholars to curate collections: openvault.wgbh.org
  • Smithsonian Digital Volunteers Transcription Center
  • Metadata 'games' project at Edinburgh University - still at an early stage but this blog post describes what we've done so far.
  • 2048 Game
• See also, second webinar with the Crowdsourcing Consortium, Scoping and Funding Crowdsourcing Projects