Resource: Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage

Summary

This book discusses how crowdsourcing can be utilized in cultural heritage archival, research, and outreach endeavors. There are two sections, Case Studies, comprised of eight chapters, and Challenges and Opportunities of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing, comprised of four chapters.

Useful Content

• Needs in depth reading by chapter

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Crowdsourcing in Brooklyn
2. Old Weather: Approaching Collections from a Different Angle
3. 'Many Hands Make Light Work. Many Hands Together Make Merry Work': Transcribe Bentham and Crowdsourcing Manuscript Collections
4. Build, Analyse and Generalise: Community Transcription if the Papers of the War Department and the Development of Scripto
5. What's on the Menu?: Crowdsourcing at the New York Public Library
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: Crowdsourcing Descriptive Metadata for a National Virtual Collection
9. Crowding Out the Archivist? Locating Crowdsourcing withing the Broader Landscape of Participatory Archives
10. How the Crowd Can Surprise Us: Humanities Crowdsourcing and the Creation of Knowledge
11. The Role of Open Authority in a Collaborative Web
12. Making Crowdsourcing Compatible with the Missions and Values of Cultural Heritage Organisations

Review

• This will be very useful for my studies, both in terms of case studies and theory.
• The references for each chapter also have a number of potentially meaningful further reading from which to draw upon.
• Wonder if there is any info on how crowdsourcing should be approached differently in Korea. Would the case studies be applicable to the Korean context?