Table of Contents

Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage; 1: Case Studies; 1: Crowdsourcing in Brooklyn; 2: Old Weather; 3: ‘Many Hands Make Light Work. Many Hands Together Make Merry Work' 1; 4: Build, Analyse and Generalise; 5: What's on the Menu?; 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; 2: Challenges and Opportunities of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing; 9: Crowding Out the Archivist? Locating Crowdsourcing within the Broader Landscape of Participatory Archives; 10: How the Crowd Can Surprise Us; 11: The Role of Open Authority in a Collaborative Web; 12: Making Crowdsourcing Compatible with the Missions and Values of Cultural Heritage Organisations

About the Author

Mia Ridge specialises in user experience design for participation and engagement in cultural heritage and the digital humanities, and has advised organisations such as the BBC, Public Catalogue Foundation, The Science Museum Group and the V&A Museum on usability, audience participation and crowdsourcing. Mia has lead workshops teaching design for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage and academia for groups such as the British Library's Digital Scholarship programme and the Digital Humanities 2013 conference. Her research at the Open University focuses on effective design for participatory digital history and the collaborative enhancement of historical materials.

Reviews

’Crowdsourcing has risen in popularity among memory institutions with stunning rapidity. However, the distribution of the methodology among libraries, archives, museums, and scientific and editorial projects presents a real challenge to researchers and practitioners. Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage meets that challenge very effectively. There is simply no other resource which draws together the expertise of leading crowdsourcing projects from around the world, covering diverse disciplines, participatory activities, and types of source media.’ Ben Brumfield, independent software developer, FromThePage.com ’Any cultural institution thinking of turning to crowdsourcing should pause and read this book first. Combining comprehensive case studies with subtle and well-informed reflection on what it means to invite contributions from a crowd, it is the first volume to seriously address a growing part of museum and archive practice.’ Chris Lintott, Principal Investigator, Galaxy Zoo and Zooniverse.org and Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, UK