2015.01.08 Web-safe DCP Crowdsourcing Report.ppt (4.47 MB)
Making molehills out of mountains: Crowdsourcing digital access to natural history collections
presentation
posted on 2015-01-19, 09:17 authored by Laurence LivermoreLaurence Livermore, John Tweddle, Lisa French, Lucy Robinson, Sarah Phillips, Vincent SmithVincent SmithPresentation given to the Digital Collections Programme Project Board, 8 January 2015 - NHM, London.
Abstract: As part of the Natural History Museum’s and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s contribution to the SYNTHESYS3 Joint Research Activity we have produced a report on the current approaches and underlying technology for crowdsourcing metadata enrichment of digital images.
This report is summarised in this presentation and provides recommendations for developing a crowdsourcing strategy for natural history collections.
