Johan Oomen's presentation at SXSW 2014 discusses user participation in heritage through a typology that includes tagging, collection acquisition, contextualization, correction, co-curation, and crowdfunding. He highlights successful projects, such as the video labeling game and Sound of the Netherlands, which demonstrate effective collaboration and contribution from users. The emphasis is on making cultural content accessible and enriching through community engagement and technology.

1. Johan Oomen
Head of Research
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
@johanoomen
THE MANY UNEXPECTED JOYS OF BEING „OUT THERE”
examples of user participation in the heritage domain
10-3-2014
SXSW 2014 panel:
100 Years of Oversharing: Tools for Time Travel
#timetravel

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1. Tagging and Classification
2. Collection Acquisition
3. Contextualisation
4. Correction and Transcription
5. Co-curation of exhibitions
6. Crowdfunding
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focus of this talk
10-3-2014
Oomen en Aroyo, 2011

4. A TYPOLOGY OF USER PARTICIPATION IN A
HERITAGE CONTEXT
1. Tagging and Classification
2. Collection Acquisition
3. Contextualisation
4. Correction and Transcription
5. Co-curation
6. Crowdfunding
10-3-2014

5. VIDEO LABELING GAME
Objective: collect fine-grained tags. Vocabulary used by end-
users.

6. VIDEO LABELING GAME
The game: adding descriptive tags to
videos
Match between players within a 10 second
time window: ‚SCORE!’

7. VIDEO LABELING GAME
- Tekst arial 28
- Tekst arial 24
- Tekst 20
Over 240.000 tags to date, 143.000 matches
From the evaluation: „search based solely on user tags is
more effective than search based on other types of metadata”

8. A TYPOLOGY OF USER PARTICIPATION IN A
HERITAGE CONTEXT
1. Tagging and Classification
2. Collection Acquisition
3. Contextualisation
4. Correction and Transcription
5. Co-curation
6. Crowdfunding
10-3-2014

9. SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Step 1: uploading hundreds of high quality, digitized archival
sounds to Soundcloud

10. SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Step 2: placing the sounds on the map & ask the world to
contribute

11. SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Enrichments on Soundcloud
Inserts in Wikipedia
pages
App ‚Mix van
Nederland’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Goose
http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?
https://soundcloud.com/beeldengeluid/
commentaar-en-racegeluiden-op

12. SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Enrichments on Soundcloud
Inserts in Wikipedia
pages
App ‚Mix van
Nederland’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Goose
http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?
https://soundcloud.com/beeldengeluid/
commentaar-en-racegeluiden-op
„Sound of the emperor goose”

13. A TYPOLOGY OF USER PARTICIPATION IN A
HERITAGE CONTEXT
1. Tagging and Classification
2. Collection Acquisition
3. Contextualisation
4. Correction and Transcription
5. Co-curation
6. Crowdfunding
10-3-2014

14. EUROPEANA COLLECTIONS 1914-1918

15. EUROPEANA COLLECTIONS 1914-1918
http://vimeo.com/65900546

16. EUROPEANA COLLECTIONS 1914-1918
http://vimeo.com/65900546

17. ROADSHOWS 1914-1918

18. ROADSHOWS 1914-1918
In 2012 and 2013: 11 countries, 64.255 contributions
2014: at least 7 additional countries

19. www.europeana1914-1918.eu
Over 400.000 WWI related items to explore:
~ User Contributions
~ Memory organisations around the world

20. From the Stewart Library, Weber State University
www.europeana1914-1918.eu

21. EUROPEANA 1914-1918
Inserts in Wikipedia
pages
Live events

22. IMPORTANT DIVER: „OPEN CULTURE DATA”
FULFILL
THEIR
PUBLIC
MISSION
“For
content
to
be
truly
accessible,
it
needs
to
be
where
the
users
are,
embedded
in
their
daily
networked
lives.”
(Wabel,
2009)
!
!
STIMULATING
COLLABORATION
AND
CREATIVITY
“No
maSer
who
you
are,
most
of
the
smartest
people
work
for
someone
else.”
(Joy’s
Law,
via
Michael
Edson)
http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/about/

23. OPEN CULTUUR DATA: EMPOWERING
PROFESSIONALS
Photo:&Olaf&Janssen.&CC&BY3SA&
Photo:
Olaf
Janssen.
CC
BY-­‐SA
http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/about/

24. OPENGLAM

25. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Gligorov,
Riste,
Michiel
Hildebrand,
Jacco
van
Ossenbruggen,
Lora
Aroyo,
en
Guus
Schreiber.
2013.
“An
evalua]on
of
labelling-­‐game
data
for
video
retrieval”.
In
Proceedings
of
the
35th
European
conference
on
Advances
in
Informa]on
Retrieval,
50–61.
ECIR’13.
Berlin,
Heidelberg:
Springer-­‐Verlag.
!
- Oomen,
Johan,
en
Lora
Aroyo.
2011.
“Crowdsourcing
in
the
cultural
heritage
domain:
opportuni]es
and
challenges”.
In
Proceedings
of
the
5th
Interna]onal
Conference
on
Communi]es
and
Technologies,
138–49.
C&T
’11.
New
York,
NY,
USA:
ACM.
!
- Verwayen,
H.,
Arnoldus,
M.,
&
Kaufman,
P.
B.
(2011).
The
Problem
of
the
Yellow
Milkmaid.
A
Business
Model
Perspec]ve
on
Open
Metadata.
!
- Crowdsourcing
our
Cultural
Heritage.
Editor:
Mia
Ridge.
Ashgate,
2014
(to
appear)
!
- L.
B.
Baltussen,
M.Brinkerink,
N.Timmermans,
M.
Zeinstra,
J.
Oomen.
Open
Culture
Data:
Opening
GLAM
Data
BoSom-­‐up.
Museums
and
the
Web
2013.
hSp://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/open-­‐culture-­‐data-­‐
opening-­‐glam-­‐data-­‐boSom-­‐up/
!
- Johan
Oomen,
LoSe
Belice
Baltussen,
Maarten
Brinkerink,
Thijs
van
Exel.
Sound
of
the
Netherlands:
Crowdsourcing
the
Dutch
Soundscape.
Museums
and
the
Web
2013,
Portland
Oregon.
hSp://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/
proposals/with-­‐help-­‐from-­‐the-­‐public-­‐crowdsourcing-­‐sounds-­‐and-­‐amateur-­‐film/
!
- Waibel,
Günter
and
Ricky
Erway.
2009.
"Think
Global,
Act
Local
-­‐
Library,
Archive
and
Museum
Collabora]on."
Museum
Management
and
Curatorship,
24,4.
10-3-2014

26. POINTERS AND THANKS
- Waisda? Source code: https://github.com/beeldengeluid/waisda
- http://www.geluidvannederland.nl
- http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Europeana_1914-1918
- http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/about
- http://openglam.org/
-
!
- Many thanks to:
- Maarten Brinkerink ~ @mbrinkerink
- Lotte Belice Baltussen ~ @lottebelice
- Arnoud Traa ~ @auditievedienst
- Alun Edwards ~ @HurricaneAlly
- Just Vervaart ~ @Justvervaart
- Michael Edson ~ @mpedson
- Dutch Ministry of Culture (supporting Open Culture Data)
10-3-2014

27. MEMORY ORGANISATIONS
http://www.digitalnz.org/make-it-digital/getting-started-with-digitisation

28. MEMORY ORGANISATIONS
Correction and
Transcription
ContextualisationCo-curation
Classification and
Tagging
Collection
acquisition

29. Johan Oomen
Head of Research
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
@johanoomen
THE MANY UNEXPECTED JOYS OF BEING „OUT THERE”
examples of user participation in the heritage domain
SXSW 2014 panel:
100 Years of Oversharing: Tools for Time Travel
#timetravel #swsw
10-3-2014