Digital History workshop: Crowdsourcing in the Humanities and cultural heritage sector. Victoria University of Wellington 23 April 2013 Session: UC CEISMIC: some thoughts on crowd-sourcing earthquake content Presenter: Christopher Thomson http://wtap.vuw.ac.nz/wordpress/digital-history/events/crowdsourcing-workshop/presenters/

1. UC CEISMIC:
Some thoughts on crowd-sourcing
earthquake content
Dr. Christopher Thomson
UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive
www.ceismic.org.nz
@UCCEISMIC

3. UC CEISMIC Consortium members

7. Benefits and Challenges
Benefits:
- Gather content from a variety of people otherwise hard to engage with
- Enable people outside the project to encourage contributions, eg
teachers, community leaders.
Challenges:
- Earthquakes are always potentially sensitive or frustrating topic
- Difficult to sustain a relatively 'open' call for people's digital content – a
tightly defined task / proposal is usually better for crowdsourcing.

11. What other crowdsourcing would CEISMIC do?
1. HITLab NZ want to integrate content gathered through the CityViewAR
mobile app into CEISMIC.
2. Tagging/annotation in phase 2 development
- Multiple layers of tags or annotations: curated, crowdsourced, machine
generated
- Could encourage people to give more content and engage with the rebuild
and longer term issues
- Issues: distinguishing between tags from different origins, likely to need
moderation/user management.

13. Thanks!
@UCCEISMIC
www.ceismic.org.nz
https://quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz