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Heritage and crowdsourcing
A t first glance an unexpect combination. After all, the heritage sector mainly consists of museums, qatar phone number list libraries, archives and cultural institutions. You don’t immiately associate them with hip ideas like ‘crowdsourcing’. Yet museums and archives are no longer the dusty places they may once have been. Last year, Paul Stork show in an article how much the heritage sector has mov with the times. In fact, in some respects, museums are leading the way in using new technologies such as QR codes and Augment Reality.
In the novel ‘Juliet Nak’ by the British writer Nick Hornby, Annie, the female protagonist, is a curator case. roi 594.55% of income of an online tableware store in a year after seo promotion in a local museum, somewhere on the north-east coast of England. She has plann an exhibition about the heatwave summer of 1964, when a shark wash up on the beach. She has ask people for photographic material and objects from that period via all the relevant websites. Annie and her museum are involv in ‘participation’. Museums are doing this more and more often: participation has been a trend in museumland in recent years. And participation can be seen as a form of ‘crowdsourcing’.
Crowdsourcing: the crowd decides
Crowdsourcing is when certain tasks that are traditionally perform What is crowdsourcing? by paid emplo american samoa business directory yees are outsourc to an undefin audience. Anyone who wants to can contribute. Crowdsourcing can have different goals. One of them is to use ‘the wisdom of crowds’. The idea is that a group of people can come to better insights or estimates than an individual from that group. It was the book ‘