A crowdsourcing crash course disguised as a

Crowdsourcing Quiz!

Digital History workshop:Crowdsourcing in the Humanities and cultural heritage sector

Victoria University of Wellington, 23 April 2013

Q. Who coined the term crowdsourcing in 2006?

a) Nina Simonb) Jeff Howec) James Surowieckid) Clay Shirkye) Rose Holley

Q. In 2012 a more comprehensive definition of crowdsourcing was put forward. Which researchers developed this definition?

a) Enrique Estellés-Arolas & Fernando González-Ladrón-de-Guevara

b) Stuart Dunn & Mark Hedgesc) Tim Causer & Valerie Wallaced) Johan Oomen & Lora Aroyo

Q. Which of the following is not a common motivation for participation in Humanities and cultural heritage crowdsourcing projects?

a) the size of the challengeb) the necessity for volunteer contributionc) collaboration with prestigious institutionsd) contribution to researche) educationf) mental stimulationg) financial remunerationh) being part of a communityi) personal research interestsj) enhancing a resource from which they will benefit

Q. Several crowdsourcing projects have asked the public to proofread and correct Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text to improve the readability and searchability of digitised material. Which of the following crowdsourcing projects did not involve correcting OCR text?

a) Digitalkoot b) Trove historical newspapers c) Dickens Journals Online d) Reading Experience Database

Q. Online geographic tools allow historic maps to be overlaid on modern mapping, enhancing the ability to view and compare the past with the present, and improving findability. How long did it take the public to georeference 724 maps during the pilot of the British Library Georeferencer project?

a) One dayb) One week (less than)c) One monthd) One year

Q. Launched in May 2012, What’s the Score at the Bodleian? is an experimental crowdsourcing project that aims to improve access to parts of the Bodleian Libraries’ music collections at the University of Oxford. A selection of uncatalogued piano sheet music from the mid-Victorian period has been digitised, and the public is invited to describe and transcribe them online. Who funded this project?

a) Amazon b) Googlec) Royal Academy of Musicd) Oxford University Faculty of Musice) Apple

Q. Asking the public to tag digital objects with descriptive terms can improve their findability. Which of the following two crowdsourcing projects involve tagging?

a) Ancient Lives b) Citizen Archivist c) Your Paintingsd) What’s on the Menu? e) Search the Collections

Q. In 2010 which art gallery used a digital kiosk in one of the galleries and an online survey to enable people to vote whether or not particular artworks should be included in the exhibition?

a) The Tate Modernb) Walker Art Centerc) Museum of Modern Artd) Auckland Art Gallerye) National Gallery of Australia

Q. The original beta (or live testing) version of the Trove historical newspaper project was submitted to how many rounds of user testing using a representative sample of the public?

a) Oneb) Twoc) Threed) Foure) Five

Q. Which researcher wrote, “crowdsourcing’s limits are determined by people’s passion and imagination, which is to say, there aren’t any limits at all”?

a) Mia Ridgeb) Daren Brabhamc) Jeff Howed) Trevor Owense) Rose Holley

“What matters most now is our imaginations. The opportunity before us, individually and collectively, is enormous; what we do with it will be

determined largely by how well we are able to imagine and reward public creativity, participation, and sharing.”

Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus

Digital History workshop:Crowdsourcing in the Humanities and cultural heritage sector

Victoria University of Wellington, 23 April 2013