Everything You Can Do With Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is traditionally thought of as image tagging or text transcription, but we're seeing a lot of fascinating new projects using either volunteers, researchers or staff collaborations to index material, transcribe ledgers for data analysis, create alt-text for images, describe items in collections, create or revise metadata, correct OCR, or translate material. Join us for a show and tell of recent projects by a variety of institutions using crowdsourcing and collaborative editing to enhance their collections.
Learning Objectives:
-- learn about the breadth of tasks appropriate for crowdsourcing
-- study reference cases to deepen your understanding of crowdsourcing possibilities
-- brainstorm project ideas with speakers and other participants