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/
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
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)