[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

[Leonard Steinbach]

Perhaps this list of crowdsourcing projects, although going a bit beyond
"specific museums" would prove useful.

?


   - The Museum of Ethnology in Berlin (*see
   http://www.smb.museum/smb/home/index.php?lang=en
    for the museum, *
   
*http://cityapps.fokus.fraunhofer.de/tcs**
   for the tagging*) uses a game called Tag.Check.Score, to tag its
   photographic collection. (*see
   
codeforeurope.net/2013/09/tag-check-score-berlins-ethnological-museum-crowdsources-information-via-digital-volunteerism/
   
)*
   - Split Second (www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/labs/splitsecond)
   from the Brooklyn Museum provided a three-stage approach to choosing
   paintings for a small exhibition. *.*
   - Remember Me: Displaced Children of the Holocaust (*rememberme.ushmm.org
   *) from the U.S. Holocaust Museum presents
   1100 photographs of displaced children who were orphaned,  displaced or
   otherwise separated from their families at the end of WWII. Its purpose is
   to identify them, learn their stories, and possibly reunite them with
   family members. Close to 200
   - Europeana 1914-1918?s ?Your Family History of World War? *(*
   *http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en*
   *)* wherein both online and through in-person ?road shows? the project
   collected, digitized and aggregated memorabilia and stories from the period
   of the Great War (1914-1918).
   - New York Public Library?s Map Warper project (*maps.nypl.org/warper
   *) engages the public in ?digitally
   aligning ("rectifying") historical maps from the NYPL's collections to
   match today's precise maps.?
   - Guggenheim Museum?s (with BMW) BMW Guggenheim Lab  (
   www.bmwguggenheimlab.org) ? addressed issues of contemporary urban life
   through free programs, projects and public discourse? using diverse ways of
   collecting and integrating information and opinions, including game-like
   activities online and at on-site pavilions in New York, Berlin, and Mumbai.
   - *National Library of Finland* (www.nationallibrary.fi) launched
   DigiTalkoot,(digital community) an online game-based program for
   correcting/validating the OCR scanning of the Library?s immense newspaper
   archive,
   - GO! Brooklyn Exhibiton (www.gobrooklynart.org) is characterized by the
   Brooklyn Museum as a ?community curated open studio project.?
   - 1001 Stories of Denmark (www.kulturarv.dk/1001fortaellinger/en_GB), a
   website from the Danish Agency for Culture, encourages the public to
   contribute ?the sights? their own story or experience from a place, [to]
   listen to stories from all over Denmark, [to create or take] their own
   travel routes and be inspired by others.?
   - International Museum of Women (www.imow.org), an online-only
museum,  ?showcases
   art, stories and ideas to celebrate, inspire and advance the lives of women
   around the world.? Its international thematic exhibitions often include
   broad public participation through stories, videos and surveys, ?giv(ing)
   voice to women who often go unheard.?
   - Transcribe Bushman (*see*
   www.mysciencework.com/news/9106/crowdsourcing-to-preserve-bushman-heritage)
   from the University of Capetown serves to transcribe the a 19th century
   archive of the Bushman people?s ?languages, stories, and way of life,? thus
   also preserving the endangered ?click? languages of Southern Africa.
   - Zooniverse (*www.zooniverse.org )* is a
   collection of extraordinary citizen-science projects, in space, climate,
   humanities, biology, and nature  which helps scientists collect and
   analyze data.
   - The Singapore Memory Project (www.singaporememory.sg/campaigns) calls
   itself ?a whole-of-nation movement that aims to capture and document
   precious moments and memories related to Singapore; recollections not
   merely from individual Singaporeans, but also organisations, associations,
   companies and groups.?


You might find this video from webwise useful


 *Institute of Museum and Library Services (US). Webwise Conference 2012.
Session 2 - Sharing Public History Work: Crowdsourcing Data and
Sources.*Chair: Sharon Leon, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New
Media.
Panelists: Ben Brumfield, FromThePage Open-Source Transcription Software;
David Klevan, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Ben Vershbow, New
York Public Library Labs. Online video:
http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/webwise/120229/globe_show/default_go_archive.cfm?gsid=1971&type=flv&test=0&live=0


as well as the website Crowdsourcing.org


Hope this helps.


Leonard Steinbach

[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

[Proctor, Nancy]

Hi Krista,
The Smithsonian also uses mobile in several apps for crowdsourcing, on the 
Roundware.org<http://Roundware.org> platform. I'll be happy to speak to you 
about our projects but you may also be able to see Dan Davis and my 
presentation about crowdsourcing verbal descriptions of collection objects to 
increase accessibility in the MCN2012 videos.

We're interested in connecting with researchers who are working on 
crowdsourcing and in particular on the question of how to measure and establish 
metrics of success for them.

Best wishes,
Nancy

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Krista,

The Smithsonian Institution has undertaken a large crowdsourcing project
(see The Transcription Center  - https://transcription.si.edu/) and the
person who is largely overseeing this at the Institution is  Ching-Hsien
Wang.  You may wish to speak with her -- she spoke briefly about this
initiative at MCN (in a session on DPLA where she describes this
crowdsourcing project  at the end of her presentation), so you can look at
the video on the MCN YouTube channel to get more info.

Best,

Diane

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On 12/6/13 7:18 AM, "Godfrey, Krista (2013)"
mailto:Krista.Godfrey.2013 at 
live.rhul.ac.uk>> wrote:

I wonder if anyone has had recent use of crowdsourcing initiatives within
their specific museum?  I am looking for one or two museums to have an
initial 'email chat' with regarding how they approached this, what
privacy or ethical issues had to be addressed, whether documents/items
were given to the 'crowd' or digitized and uploaded onto the website or a
secure are of it, and how the information received back from the 'public'
was verified.  Also, was there any vetting of the people who would be
involved in the project?

If anyone can assist I would be grateful as it is an area of my PhD that
I am currently investigating.

Thank you in advance
Krista Godfrey
Postgraduate Research Student
School of Management
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham

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[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

[Godfrey, Krista (2013)]

I wonder if anyone has had recent use of crowdsourcing initiatives within their 
specific museum?  I am looking for one or two museums to have an initial 'email 
chat' with regarding how they approached this, what privacy or ethical issues 
had to be addressed, whether documents/items were given to the 'crowd' or 
digitized and uploaded onto the website or a secure are of it, and how the 
information received back from the 'public' was verified.  Also, was there any 
vetting of the people who would be involved in the project?

If anyone can assist I would be grateful as it is an area of my PhD that I am 
currently investigating.

Thank you in advance
Krista Godfrey
Postgraduate Research Student
School of Management
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham

[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

[Diane Zorich]

Krista, 

 The Smithsonian Institution has undertaken a large crowdsourcing project
(see The Transcription Center  - https://transcription.si.edu/) and the
person who is largely overseeing this at the Institution is  Ching-Hsien
Wang.  You may wish to speak with her -- she spoke briefly about this
initiative at MCN (in a session on DPLA where she describes this
crowdsourcing project  at the end of her presentation), so you can look at
the video on the MCN YouTube channel to get more info.

Best, 

Diane

Diane M. Zorich
Cultural Heritage Consultant ? Digital Strategies for Culture Organizations
113 Gallup Road
Princeton, NJ 08540  USA
Voice: 609 252-1518
Email: dzorich at mindspring.com or dianezorich at comcast.net
Twitter: @dzorich





On 12/6/13 7:18 AM, "Godfrey, Krista (2013)"
 wrote:

>I wonder if anyone has had recent use of crowdsourcing initiatives within
>their specific museum?  I am looking for one or two museums to have an
>initial 'email chat' with regarding how they approached this, what
>privacy or ethical issues had to be addressed, whether documents/items
>were given to the 'crowd' or digitized and uploaded onto the website or a
>secure are of it, and how the information received back from the 'public'
>was verified.  Also, was there any vetting of the people who would be
>involved in the project?
>
>If anyone can assist I would be grateful as it is an area of my PhD that
>I am currently investigating.
>
>Thank you in advance
>Krista Godfrey
>Postgraduate Research Student
>School of Management
>Royal Holloway, University of London
>Egham
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[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

[Douglas Hegley]

The Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands is crowdsourcing
cataloguing of the digitization of their collection. Also from the recent
MCN Conference:

"Digitizing Nature with a Live Audience
 Speakers: Maarten Heerlien,
Kirsten Van Hulsen 

With roughly 37 million biological and geological specimens, Naturalis
Biodiversity Center, the national museum of natural history of the
Netherlands, maintains one of the five largest natural history collections
in the world. To make this collection accessible to scientists, students,
and nature enthusiasts worldwide, Naturalis is carrying out a large-scale
program to digitize a cross-section of seven million objects ranging from
mounted specimens and herbarium sheets to fossils and antique nature books,
and from mammoths to mites. The results of these efforts are published
online through Europeana and other aggregators, and from the end of 2013
through Naturalis's new online biodiversity portal. Museum visitors in
Leiden can witness the process of specimen digitization, and even engage in
it, in the exhibition space called LiveScience. We will introduce the
program, its background, and its goals with a short video. Then we will
elaborate on the concept of live digitization and the motivations for it,
talk about the challenges we meet, and conclude by discussing concrete
results we've harvested while digitizing collections in front of a live
audience of visitors and getting them to engage in the digitization process
themselves."

I'm sure they'd be happy to discuss the project with you.
- Douglas


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