THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation

Majlis Bremer-Laamanen, directorKonstanz 25th May 2014

Crowdsourcing in Finland

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation

Crowdsourcing clippings

- Newspapers 1771-1910- Journals 1810-1910- Ephemera 1810-1944

http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation

How to awake interest?

• platform makes using digital collections easier• As usable as possible• Benefit in the form of own scrapbook with personally

collected clippings• Clippings also searchable by all users

• Clippings can be shared with interest groups inother social medias

• hope to invite new users by opening the service for f.ex. schools, researchers and interest groups

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation

From earlier co-operation to Digitalkoot

The National Library of Finland• Participated in game for text correction in 2011-

12 with the company Microtask• Already then the Library wanted to see if there

was demand for crowdsourcing of clippings, likearticles, pictures, advertisements from nespapers,journals and ephemera

New project• The content of collections in fokus• Financing from European union social funds• ready in April, one of the first crowdsourcing

moduls in the world for article clipping 14.1.1890 Uusi Suometar

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Users I

enquiry in the Historical NewspaperLibrary

231 answers of which 20 notearlier used the NewspaperLibrary

The typical user used the materialoften, 1-7 times per weekPositive: 22 of the answerers sharedalready our via social mediaUsers age profile is relatively high, butdespite of it 160 users were linked toseveral social media and only 78 didnot use socia media

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Users II

Results:User want to share what they are doing – they want toco-operate via social media or function via the interfaceUsers want to have their own private page, with theirown markingsPlatform must be easy to useUsers must be able to register also outside the socialmedia

20.6.1835 Sanan Saattaja Wiipurista

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Project

koncept for crowdsourcing platform, both fromuser and technical perspectivePartner: fine tuning of the modeltender 2012January 2013: contract with companiesGofore/Evident. ScrumBan (agile) methodwith both companiesThe first alpha version ready in June 2013The graphical company Idean in the project

Suomalainen WirallinenLehti 19.6.1903

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Free text searchComputer or tablettYour address in the social media functions as login, as well as an address on our siteWhat you ever want to search for: family history,

home town and all other interests ...

Platform

Ephemera: clippings

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Digitalkoot – clippings: BrowsingGoogle orhttp://digi.lib.helsinki.fi

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Digitalkoot – clippings: Newspapers - search

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Digitalkoot – clippings:

The result is here:• The storm Oscar in Dec 13 shut down

the electricity for thousands of households

• This paper comes as an electronicversion to our centre as a print PDF file with all metadata. This is transformed to same int METS formatthat we use.

• This newspapers i available at the Library and the other 6 depositlibraries in Finland.

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Digitalkoot – clippings: Login

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Digitalkoot – clippings: clipping and metadata

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You can make comments, anduse several search words.

You can also pick ready-madeclippings on your own page

and add more.

Digitalkoot – clippings: ready & comments

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Digitalkoot –clippings: search for clippings

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• You have your own Scrapbook.The clippings made by you are onthe same page.

• You can share clippings via socialmedia.

Digitalkoot –clippings: Scrapbook

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Forward towards Digitalkoot – ”Theme search”Forward towards Digitalkoot – ”Theme search”Forward towards Digitalkoot – ”Theme search”

• ”Ordered” clippings about a certain theme• Ordering f.ex. by media publishers, researchers, companies, schools (teachers), clubs…• Content in active use• New themes appearing• Information of users’ needs and interests• The never-ending possibilities of the content > reuse, again and again

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Happy summertime!From the clippings.

Summer in Helsinki in 1910

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Thank you !

majlis.bremer-laamanen@helsinki.fi