The ABC of Crowdsourcing a Community Collection

ABC of CROWDSOURCING a COMMUNITY COLLECTION

Kate Lindsay, Manager for Engagement @ktdigital

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Crowdsourcing is when a problem is broadcast to a wide audience or community that could solve the problem collectively. Mundane tasks could be outsourced to a motivated and enthusiastic community of experts. The community can assess the answers and provide the quality assurance. - JISC

A CALL to ATTICS, BOTTOM DRAWERS and SUCH…

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20,00016,000

6,500

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1 CONTRIBUTOR

≥ 1 SUBMISSIONS

≥ 1 ATTACHMENTS

Where are they from?

ATTATCHMENTS

SUBMISSIONS

WHAT NOW?

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Aim for TWO-WAYENGAGEMENT

Be PART of YOUR COMMUNITY

Challenge YOUR ASSUMPTIONS

• Primary source material in institution

• Professional Digitisation using benchmarks

• Catalogued by trained cataloguers

• Quality Assured twice, including by a key expert in the field

• Average £40.00 per image

• Primary source material held by individuals

• Digitisation performed by the public or project team

• Initially catalogued by the public

• Quality Assured and metadata expanded upon by the project team

• Average £3.50 per image (possibly significantly less)

Challenge YOUR ASSUMPTIONS

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Knowledge is no longer restricted to the boundaries of universities and higher education facilities. These institutions no longer have a monopoly on where good ideas come from, nor how information and knowledge is used. They cannot control how the knowledge they create is used and where it is accessed . – DEMOS, The Edgeless University

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