Overview for crowdsourcing

Title:: John Jennings Esq., his Brother and Sister-in-Law
Creator:: Alexander Roslin
Date:: 1769
Institution:: Nationalmuseum
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: Public Domain

Project 1 September 2018 - 29 February 2020

Enrich Europeana

EnrichEuropeana developed a crowdsourcing platform that enables citizens to transcribe and enrich cultural heritage material from Europeana Collections and national aggregator portals.

News Created: 24 March 2016

Five Tips For Your Next Academic Crowdsourcing Project

Collections Academic Research crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is tied to a number of issues that need to be thought through before launching a campaign. Some of these issues are hard to work around in the university environment.

News Created: 17 March 2016 Frank Drauschke

Europeana 1989: Documenting Historic Turning Points Via Crowdsourcing

Collections Academic Research crowdsourcing

The historic events of 1989/1990 marked a turning point in European history, as 2015 may well prove to be. It is important to document such crucial phases in our history, and to start doing so as early as possible. Crowdsourcing can play a useful role here by helping to gather information through the collection and documentation of personal accounts and source materials.

News Created: 2 March 2016 Stephen Bull

Europeana 1914-1918: Showcasing Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content as The 'New' History

Academic Research crowdsourcing

There is a genuine case to be made that, in the digital age, 'User Generated Content' (UGC) is 'new history'. Its beauty is twofold: much of it has never been shared outside of a family or personal context, and now, being seen publicly for the first time, it can be marshalled into categories and mined for research.