Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2014]
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Part of the series Digital research in the arts and humanities;Digital research in the arts and humanities.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 -
Subjects:
- Cultural property — Management.
- Cultural property — Philosophy.
- Human computation.
- Digital media — Social aspects.
- Museums — Collection management.
- Collection management (Libraries)
- Library materials — Digitization.
- Archival materials — Digitization.
Requested by Delegard, K