Comments on: Identifying and Motivating Citizen X-ists

By: Ben Brumfield

Ben Brumfield — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:04:38 +0000

I've just posted a session idea devoted to crowdsourcing. I'm still very interested in presenting my original proposal on the mechanics of motivating volunteers, but am not sure if it or Amy's session idea should be wedged into the crowdsourcing session or stand alone.

By: Crowdsourcing « THATCamp Texas 2011

Crowdsourcing « THATCamp Texas 2011 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:59:35 +0000

[…] THATCampers have added comments to my session proposal mentioning their interest in a session on crowdsourcing. I’d like to promote that […]

By: rebeccadavis

rebeccadavis — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:51:07 +0000

I would love a session on crowdsourcing, especially one that gets into the practical challenges.

By: Ben Brumfield

Ben Brumfield — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:53:13 +0000

LibraryThing is just amazing. One of the things that wows me most as an application developer is that they’ve made one of the most odious, repetitive database tasks (de-duplication of records) and turned it into a feature so easy to use and so transparent that there are actual clubs of volunteers formed to combine authors and works.

By: Laurel

Laurel — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:22:40 +0000

LibraryThing is the app where I’ve seen this happen the most fruitfully. They have a pretty vast crowd of people tagging, disambiguating authors, and grouping things into sequels. They’re all volunteer. I heard some good talks earlier this year on Mechanical Turk as source of linguistic judgments, and the consequences re IRB and income taxes. It’s got me thinking a lot about crowd sourcing. I’d be interested to hear more.

By: Ben Brumfield

Ben Brumfield — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:08:58 +0000

Crowdsourcing is a big, big issue -- why don't you post a session idea with some of the specific things that are on your mind and we'll see what we can put together?

Andrew J. Torget: We’re contemplating a crowd-sourcing aspect of a big project we’re doing on a large personal papers collection, and I’d love to talk about these issues in more depth.

By: Andrew J. Torget

Andrew J. Torget — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:00:24 +0000

Personally, I’d love to do a session with you all on “crowd-sourcing your sources” and all the permutations of that issue. We’re contemplating a crowd-sourcing aspect of a big project we’re doing on a large personal papers collection, and I’d love to talk about these issues in more depth.

By: tara.carlisle

tara.carlisle — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:04:05 +0000

Great session idea! I certainly would be interested in participating. I coordinate digitization projects for the Portal to Texas History and work with institutions who rely heavily on community involvement. Some volunteer programs remind me of quilting bees – volunteers show up for “metadata day” and contribute their collective memories to provide meaning to many unidentified photos or documents. Other institutions use Facebook to build and promote collections.

By: Ben Brumfield

Ben Brumfield — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:20:55 +0000

I think they might do very nicely together as well. It’s early yet, so let’s see how all the other session ideas fit together.

By: amyschexnayder

amyschexnayder — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:11:55 +0000

I think your session idea and mine would go well together! I would love to hear more about this.