http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/session/user_generated_community Comments for "User-Generated Community" en http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/session/user_generated_community#comment-4198 <p>Arts don’t really use crowdsourcing in the way the citizen science projects do – want to do more of that</p> <p>Bilingual interface of Tate project: a challenge for citizen science projects to build in localization</p> <p>Carefulness and thoroughness of other projects inspiring: how to connect results of a single museum to a larger data set/community</p> <p>Using games to get people to contribute to crowdsourcing</p> <p>Ways to get contributions from people who can’t come to the museum in person</p> <p>One-to-one: more questions were left than answers, 66/33%</p> <p>Behind the scenes documentation at CAC in Cincinnati Ohio wildly popular – most-shared content; also some security concerns</p> <p>Old Weather logs: each transcribed 10 times initially; then found they could get statistical agreement with just 5, better than relying on a single translator</p> <p>-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Be careful about planning validation of data before you start collecting it so you can actually use what you collect!</p> <p>In Wales project, contributors can work with assets they upload immediately; final published product has to be moderated before going live</p> <p>National Maritime Museum’s Citizen Science projects use Amazon cloud to host user-generated content: need ability to deal with peaks and troughs quickly</p> <p>National Maritime Museum’s citizens scientists include a lot of people who are house-bound and feel this is a way to make a contribution</p> <p>Galaxy Zoo found a huge audience in Poland; translated interface to the project into Polish.</p> Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:05:28 +0000 NancyProctor comment 4198 at http://www.museumsandtheweb.com