tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805419860930974367.post1078201129563712327..comments2021-01-31T21:54:50.220-08:00Comments on Elena Pierazzo's Blog: Crowd Sourcing and Digital EditingElena Pierazzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729863417896378833noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805419860930974367.post-37782642908266258172013-04-22T11:32:51.284-07:002013-04-22T11:32:51.284-07:00Hi, Elena.
Regarding #2, there is an active discu...Hi, Elena.<br /><br />Regarding #2, there is an active discussion going on in the crowdsourcing world about the role of training and testing as a disincentive to participation. Probably the strongest advocate for open participation is Chris Lintott, who I recall pointing out at an AHA2012 panel that self-evaluation (i.e. confidence) was never correlated to the quality of a participant's results, and that it's entirely possible to evaluate the quality of people's participation after they contribute and weight their contributions accordingly instead of attempting an evaluation before you allow them to contribute.<br /><br />Regarding #3, I'd like to draw your attention to the Harry Ransom Center's Manuscript Fragments project, which asks volunteers to identify medieval fragments used as binding in later books. (A good overview of the project is Micah Erwin's St. Louis <a href="http://micahcapstone.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/85/" rel="nofollow">presentation</a>.) This sort of project isn't quite a simple question--maybe it's more reminiscent of the old tagging crowdsourcing projects of a half-decade ago than it is of transcription tools--but the identification of the texts and the scripts that volunteers have made are consistent, and usually high quality from what I understand.<br /><br />Regarding #4, you might be interested in <a href="http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2012/03/quality-control-for-crowdsourced.html" rel="nofollow">my old classification</a> of quality control strategies in crowdsourced transcription projects.<br /><br />Regarding #5, a lot of memory institutions are using crowdsourcing for patron engagement -- as a way to enhance the public's experience of the material and to convert volunteers into advocates for the collection, the institution, and the discipline. Trevor Owens <a href="http://www.trevorowens.org/2012/03/crowdsourcing-cultural-heritage-the-objectives-are-upside-down/" rel="nofollow">wrote about this last year</a>, and I suspect you'll hear Paul Flemons address this at SDSE this july.Ben W. Brumfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363399128262210534noreply@blogger.com