1. 20th September 2011 Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship Conference, New York Crowdsourcing as Public Engagement Alastair Dunning Digitisation Programme Manager

2. Crowdsourcing as Public Engagement @alastairdunning a.dunning (AT) jisc.ac.uk http://www.slideshare.net/xcia0069/crowdsourcing-as-public-engagement

3. JISC – Network, Services, Innovation, Includes Content (http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk)

4. imagine ten thousand members of the general public outside the entrance to your library ....

5. qualms? maybe. but you would not just dismiss them out of hand

6. this is crowdsourcing/ community content. about how we engagepublic(s) with collections, research, onlineresources

7. contributions to the oxford english dictionary http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventuresinlibrarianship/500218879/

8. wikipedia - a massive crowdsourcing project

10. Since 2008, Australian digitised newspapers invited transcriptions, very popular with local and family historians – 47,168,258 lines of c.3m pages of newspapers corrected

12. eBird since 2002 – 1.5m observations in one month!

15. World Archives Project - Commercial publishers involved in crowdsourcing as well 91,000contributors. 98.4 million records indexed

16. how do you engage publics in some of the academy’s most boring and labourious tasks?

20. engaging, slick interfaces, innovative games, and good communications will help exploitpublic(s) interest

21. exploit?

23. do we want users exploited?

24. will they get bored?

26. hmm. what project do this?

27. volunteers have their own timescales sustaining that engagement via recognition

29. need to think of crowdsourcing as part of larger public engagement mission; not a single project but culturally embedded

30. universities, cultural heritage institutions, and other related bodies need to ...

32. raise awareness

33. inform, but listen and respond

34. get donations

36. References JISC (http://www.jisc.ac.uk) and portal to JISC Content (http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/) Trove – Australian Newspapers - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper eBird - http://ebird.org/ Leaf Watch (Conkers) - http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/conker-tree-science-leaf-watch/id445371129?mt=8 World Archives Project - http://community.ancestry.com/wap fold.it - http://fold.it/ Digital Koot - http://www.digitalkoot.fi/en Digitisation, Curation and Two Way Engagement RunCoCo - http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/ Great War Archive - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/ http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en

37. Sources of Big Numbers Wikipedia – Wikimedia Strategic Plan up to 2015, p 4-8 Trove – Trove Statistics (as of 14th September 2011) eBird – About eBird (accessed 14th September 2011) World Archives Project – Public Tweet (14th September 2011)