The Institution and the Crowd

The Institution and the Crowd Josh Greenberg Director, Digital Strategy and Scholarship The New York Public Library @epistemographer

Traditional model: museum/library as authority

EVERYTHING’S DIFFERENT!!

Professional vs. Not mac vs. pc

Danger

Throwing out baby (knowledge) with bathwater (“oppressive” one-way ﬂow)

Need to deﬁne next paradigm

Balance internal and external expertise(s), value both

Look to science for models

Gentleman science

Professionalization

Professionalization = creation of “public”

Expert / lay relationship?

Professional knowledge?

Public Understanding of Science

Citizen science

http://bit.ly/cAF0MC

3 models for public participation in science: • Contributory projects, which are generally designed by scientists and for which members of the public primarily contribute data • Collaborative projects, which are generally designed by scientists and for which members of the public contribute data but also may help to refine project design, analyze data, or disseminate findings • Co-created projects, which are designed by scientists and members of the public working together and for which at least some of the public participants are actively involved in most or all steps of the scientific process.

Can citizen science map onto the humanities? Onto the arts?

Design

Design: New website

http://sourceforge.net/ projects/infomaki/

Design: Homework Help

Iterative design/testing with students, teachers

Collections / Data

Data: Homework Help

Data: historical maps

scale of problem

answer: deputize

ﬁrst example: students in Map Division

http://maps.nypl.org

role of curator: community organizer

Data: Candide 2.0

http://candide.nypl.org/text/

Back to original question:

How to embrace both internal and external expertise?

Contributory: Georectiﬁcation Homework Help search data Usability Testing Collaborative: Candide 2.0 Extracting geo features Co-created: Homework Help widgets

Professional Public

Professional Public Amateur/ Enthusiast

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The Institution and the Crowd

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