The Collective Wisdom Handbook: Perspectives on Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage - book sprint version
Resource type
Book
Date published
2021
Abstract
Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage is a form of digitally-enabled participation that promises deeper, more engaged relationships with the public via meaningful tasks with cultural heritage collections. Crowdsourcing has helped to provide a framework for online participation with, and around, cultural heritage collections for over a decade. The Collective Wisdom Handbook is a comprehensive, practical and authoritative guide to crowdsourcing and digitally-enabled participation projects in the cultural heritage sector.
The Handbook is written for crowdsourcing practitioners who work in cultural institutions, as well as those who wish to gain experience with crowdsourcing. It provides both practical tips, grounded in lessons often learned the hard way, and inspiration from research across a range of disciplines. Case studies and perspectives based on our experience are woven throughout the book, complemented by information drawn from research literature and practice within the field, and supplemented with quotes from small surveys we ran for project volunteers and stakeholders.
The structure of the Handbook is designed around the key stages of planning, implementing, and running a crowdsourcing project. Threads woven through that structure include understanding and matching activities to participant motivations, articulating and embedding your values, planning for the eventual uses of the data, and recognizing the institutional, social, and technological context in which you are working. Each chapter contains perspectives and case studies that summarize or exemplify the ideas discussed in the text.
The Handbook is an important outcome of the AHRC-funded Collective Wisdom project, which aimed to produce an open access book that provides the definitive guide to designing, managing, and integrating crowdsourcing activities for cultural heritage collections. Itself an example of “collective wisdom,” this book was written collaboratively with participants selected from responses to an open call for co-authors to share their knowledge and expertise.
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Collective Wisdom
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council | AH/T013052/1 |
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