Terras, MM;
(2016)
Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities.
In: Schreibman, S and Siemens, R, (eds.)
Companion to Digital Humanities II.
(pp. 420-439).
Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
Crowdsourcing (the harnessing of online activities and behaviour to complete large-scale computational tasks) has been recently adopted in the cultural and heritage sectors to improve the quality of, and widen access to, online collections. Within Digital Humanities there have been attempts to crowdsource more complex tasks traditionally assumed to be carried out by academic scholars, such as the accurate transcription of manuscript material. This chapter surveys the growth and uptake of crowdsourcing for culture and heritage, particularly within Digital Humanities. It asks how the use of technology to involve and engage a wider audience with tasks that have been the traditional purview of academics can broaden the scope and appreciation of humanistic enquiry, and how such public facing projects are contributing to the field of Digital Humanities.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Wiley-Blackwell, January 2016. Author’s last version provided here with permission. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Centre for Editing Lives and Letters |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1447269 |
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