Build the Crowdsourcing Community of Your Dreams
#GLAMcrowd SXSW 2016
In order of appearance...
Mia Ridge @mia_out
Ben Brumfield @benwbrum
Meghan Ferriter @meghaninmotion
Siobhan Leachman @SiobhanLeachman
Build the Crowdsourcing Community of Your Dreams
Dr. Mia Ridge, @mia_out
Digital Curator, British Library
openobjects.org.uk / www.bl.uk
SXSW 2016
Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage
Asking the public to help with tasks that contribute to a shared, significant goal or research interest related to cultural heritage collections or knowledge.
The activities and/or goals should be inherently rewarding.
Basically...
Transforming input content into output content
...via a powerful purpose and / or enjoyable tasks that people want to help you with
Rewards are intrinsic or altruistic, not financial
Art UK Tagger
https://www.flickr.com/photos/statensarkiver/8975684669
Heritage crowdsourcing as volunteering
https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/4659373140
#party host
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5786204856
Crowdsourcing as hosting a party
Engaging The Public Through�Crowdsourced Transcription
Ben Brumfield
Founder, FromThePage.com
@benwbrum
Virtuous Cycle
Transcription
Exposure
Recruitment
Repeat!
Open Doors
Hans Wolff, Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Door_numbered_52.jpg
Motivation
“Can you also tell me please what is the matter with Josie? Julia is obviously very worried about her health and so glad of other people coming to visit.”
Thanks!
Ben Brumfield
FromThePage.com
@benwbrum
COLLABORATION TO ENGAGEMENT,
PLUS TWO TIPS
Dr. Meghan Ferriter
@MeghanInMotion
#GLAMcrowd
CONCIERGE
CONVERSE
CONNECT
Guide
Guard
Govern
Authority
Authenticity
Approachability
Accountability
Siobhan Leachman:
Volunteer, Volunpeer & Citizen Scientist
@siobhanleachman siobhan.leachman@gmail.com
@siobhanleachman
Why do I volunteer?
Enjoyment.
For the greater good.
@siobhanleachman
Enjoy details by Alexandre Dulaunoy CC BY-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/adulau/165899638
Be Generous
Generous with content.
Generous with time.
Generous with trust.
An Old Man Giving a Shirt to a Young Man, 1469, by Follower of Hans Schilling from the workshop of Diebold Lauber, ink, coloured washes, and tempera colours on paper. Public domain. The Getty (83.MR.179.119) Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
@siobhanleachman
Enjoy, Engage, Enrich.
@siobhanleachman
So let’s talk about
Engagement and Crowdsourcing
What’s The True Cost?
What Do You Do When Your Dreams Come True?
What’s On The Horizon?
Isn’t this Exploitation? What about Deprofessionalization?
Questions?
Stay in the room to keep chatting #GLAMcrowd
http://bit.ly/GLAMcrowd
Ben Brumfield @benwbrum
Meghan Ferriter @meghaninmotion
Mia Ridge @mia_out
Siobhan Leachman @SiobhanLeachman