The ABC of Crowdsourcing a Community Collection

by Kate Lindsay on Sep 07, 2011

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A presentation to accompany the report RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online (2011) http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/resources/RunCoCo_Report.pdf

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A presentation to accompany the report RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online (2011) http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/resources/RunCoCo_Report.pdf

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The ABC of Crowdsourcing a Community Collection — Presentation Transcript

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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20,000 16,000 6,500

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1 CONTRIBUTOR ≥ 1 SUBMISSIONS ≥ 1 ATTACHMENTS

Where are they from? ATTATCHMENTS SUBMISSIONS

WHAT NOW?

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http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco / DO YOU WANT to RUN CoCo ?

A im for TWO-WAY ENGAGEMENT

B e PART of YOUR COMMUNITY

C hallenge 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)

C hallenge YOUR ASSUMPTIONS

“ ” 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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The ABC of Crowdsourcing a Community Collection

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