Museums and the Web
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User-Generated Community
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April 9, 2011 - 1:30pm - 3:30pm
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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914
Description
Our aim is not that our visitors simply provide content, it is that they buiild communities of which we play an important part. How can we create sustained dialogue which the museum and its collections enable, but in which engagement with us is not necessarily the primary motive of others?
Comments
by Nancy Proctor - Apr 9 2011 - 4:05pm
What our speakers learned from each other & other key learnings
Arts don’t really use crowdsourcing in the way the citizen science projects do – want to do more of that
Bilingual interface of Tate project: a challenge for citizen science projects to build in localization
Carefulness and thoroughness of other projects inspiring: how to connect results of a single museum to a larger data set/community
Using games to get people to contribute to crowdsourcing
Ways to get contributions from people who can’t come to the museum in person
One-to-one: more questions were left than answers, 66/33%
Behind the scenes documentation at CAC in Cincinnati Ohio wildly popular – most-shared content; also some security concerns
Old Weather logs: each transcribed 10 times initially; then found they could get statistical agreement with just 5, better than relying on a single translator
- Be careful about planning validation of data before you start collecting it so you can actually use what you collect!
In Wales project, contributors can work with assets they upload immediately; final published product has to be moderated before going live
National Maritime Museum’s Citizen Science projects use Amazon cloud to host user-generated content: need ability to deal with peaks and troughs quickly
National Maritime Museum’s citizens scientists include a lot of people who are house-bound and feel this is a way to make a contribution
Galaxy Zoo found a huge audience in Poland; translated interface to the project into Polish.