katherine skinner, executive director, educopia institute digital directions 2012 boston, ma june...
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Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute
Digital Directions 2012Boston, MAJune 14, 2012
It Takes a Community to Curate a Collection
Crowdsourcing and Communitysourcing
Case Studies in communitysourcingSuccessfully “sourcing” your
curatorial needs
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Root of the terms: “sourcing”Both are outsourcing processesHistorical precedents exist for eachKey concern: How can you use
“sourcing” to your institution’s advantage?
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Crowdsourcing: a process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. Can occur online and/or offline Task given to an undefined public rather
than a specific body, such as paid employees.
(Wikipedia, 06-2012)
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Myth: crowdsourcing is a digital phenomenon
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James Murray, OED founding editor, Scriptorium
Image source: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
Just a few notable ones… Wikipedia Galaxy Zoo What’s on the Menu Trove FamilySearchIndexing Digitalkoot
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Source: http://menus.nypl.org/
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Source: http://trove.nla.gov.au
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Source: Rose Holley, National Library of Australia
Crowds are generic bodies of people, not experts in a particular field. This can be a liability if you try to engage the crowd in overly specialized tasks.
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The Crowd: StrangersThe Community: Engaged Network
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Source: Mike Randolph, booooooom.comSource: openreflections.wordpress.com
Not yet a clearly recognized term
“Communitysourcing targets higher-order tasks that can only be performed by specific populations that possess unique skill-sets and knowledge.” (Wing, 2012)
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Irony = like “crowdsourcing”, communitysourcing is an old practice
e.g., National Union Catalog
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Common centerDistribution of workCommunity of engagementConcentrated effort toward unified
goal
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Crowd and Communitysourcing exemplars
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Source: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/
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Source: http://represent.berkeley.edu/umati/
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Source: metaarchive.org
Prospective program to cultivate a strong community around library publishing services
Would establish a focused center to foster library collaboration in this emerging area (communications forums, advocacy materials, a directory of library publishing programs, etc.)
Goal: to enable libraries to produce and thus maintain ownership of digital scholarly content, in turn ensuring that libraries can curate and preserve it (not just rent it and entrust its sustainability to other entities).
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Establish a solid core Document a set of stable parameters Ensure the value of participating is
obvious Reward participants for their work Actively foster the sense of
community Mark progress openly and in
celebratory manners
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