{"id":693,"date":"2017-05-25T12:52:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/?p=693"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:52:32","slug":"crowdsourcing-dh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/digitalhumanities\/2017\/05\/25\/crowdsourcing-dh\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing & DH"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I had the opportunity to discuss one of my favorite aspects of Digital Humanities – Crowdsourcing – during our annual DH Summer Symposium.\u00a0 Ever since the NYPL introduced me to the practice back in 2007 with their “What’s on the Menu?<\/a>” transcribing project I have been enamored with crowdsourcing.\u00a0 In my presentation I pulled from Melissa Terras’ (2015) to define what is meant by crowdsourcing:<\/p>\n

“the harnessing of online activities and behavior to aid in large-scale ventures such as tagging, commenting, rating, reviewing, text correcting, and the creation and uploading of content in a methodical, task-based fashion (Holley, 2010) \u2013 to improve the quality of, and widen access to, online collections”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also include Citizen Science under the umbrella of crowdsourcing as that movement is built on collecting and analyzing data that is submitted by the general public.\u00a0 A more simplified definition of crowdsourcing is presented by Zooniverse, a website dedicated to crowdsourcing projects and a partner of the NYPL Labs on the Emigrant City project:<\/p>\n

People-powered research<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For me the magic of crowdsourcing is its ability to engage everyday citizens with humanities and science research in order to create a more active and informed public.\u00a0 There is no better way to explain the continued value and relevance of a degree in the Arts & Sciences than to be able to point to research projects that are able to create a community that straddles both the academic and everyday worlds.\u00a0 As the NYPL Labs once wrote:<\/p>\n

With every menu transcribed and map rectified, users are supporting research in the humanities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even though the NYPL Labs closed in late 2016 its influence lives on through ongoing projects such as:<\/p>\n

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And through the use of the programs and tools that they developed and are currently shared on GitHub.<\/p>\n

The Seton Hall University Library Collections offer ample opportunity to tap into the power of crowdsourcing and I look forward to seeing what projects the campus DH Committee will contribute to the community of crowdsourcing.<\/p>\n

References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections. (n.d.). Retrieved May 22, 2017, from https:\/\/www.nypl.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/all-hands-deck-nypl-turns-crowd-develop-digital-collections<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Public Library. (n.d.). Retrieved May 25, 2017, from https:\/\/github.com\/NYPL<\/a><\/p>\n

NYPL Labs. (Archived). Retrieved May 25, 2017, from https:\/\/www.nypl.org\/collections\/labs<\/a><\/p>\n

NYPL\/Zooniverse. (n.d.). Emigrant City. Retrieved May 25, 2017, from http:\/\/emigrantcity.nypl.org\/#\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Terras, M. (2015). Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities<\/a>. In S. Schreibman, R. Siemens, & J. Unsworth (Eds.), A New Companion to Digital Humanities<\/i> (pp. 420\u2013438). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<\/p>\n

Together We Listen. (n.d.). Retrieved May 25, 2017, from http:\/\/togetherwelisten.nypl.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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