Digital History workshop: Crowdsourcing in the Humanities and cultural heritage sector. Victoria University of Wellington 23 April 2013 Session: Crash course in crowdsourcing Facilitator: Donelle McKinley

1. A crowdsourcing crash course disguised as a
Crowdsourcing Quiz!
Digital History workshop:
Crowdsourcing in the Humanities and cultural heritage sector
Victoria University of Wellington, 23 April 2013

2. Q. Who coined the term crowdsourcing in 2006?
a) Nina Simon
b) Jeff Howe
c) James Surowiecki
d) Clay Shirky
e) Rose Holley

3. Q. In 2012 a more comprehensive definition of crowdsourcing
was put forward. Which researchers developed this definition?
a) Enrique Estellés-Arolas
& Fernando González-Ladrón-de-Guevara
b) Stuart Dunn & Mark Hedges
c) Tim Causer & Valerie Wallace
d) Johan Oomen & Lora Aroyo

4. Q. Which of the following is not a common motivation for
participation in Humanities and cultural heritage crowdsourcing
projects?
a) the size of the challenge
b) the necessity for volunteer contribution
c) collaboration with prestigious institutions
d) contribution to research
e) education
f) mental stimulation
g) financial remuneration
h) being part of a community
i) personal research interests
j) enhancing a resource from which they will benefit

5. Q. Several crowdsourcing projects have asked the public to
proofread and correct Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text
to improve the readability and searchability of digitised material.
Which of the following crowdsourcing projects did not involve
correcting OCR text?
a) Digitalkoot
b) Trove historical newspapers
c) Dickens Journals Online
d) Reading Experience Database

6. Q. Online geographic tools allow historic maps to be overlaid on
modern mapping, enhancing the ability to view and compare the
past with the present, and improving findability. How long did it
take the public to georeference 724 maps during the pilot of the
British Library Georeferencer project?
a) One day
b) One week (less than)
c) One month
d) One year

7. Q. Launched in May 2012, What’s the Score at the Bodleian? is
an experimental crowdsourcing project that aims to improve
access to parts of the Bodleian Libraries’ music collections at the
University of Oxford. A selection of uncatalogued piano sheet
music from the mid-Victorian period has been digitised, and the
public is invited to describe and transcribe them online. Who
funded this project?
a) Amazon
b) Google
c) Royal Academy of Music
d) Oxford University Faculty of Music
e) Apple

8. Q. Asking the public to tag digital objects with descriptive terms can
improve their findability. Which of the following two crowdsourcing
projects involve tagging?
a) Ancient Lives
b) Citizen Archivist
c) Your Paintings
d) What’s on the Menu?
e) Search the Collections

9. Q. In 2010 which art gallery used a digital kiosk in one of the galleries
and an online survey to enable people to vote whether or not
particular artworks should be included in the exhibition?
a) The Tate Modern
b) Walker Art Center
c) Museum of Modern Art
d) Auckland Art Gallery
e) National Gallery of Australia

10. Q. The original beta (or live testing) version of the Trove historical
newspaper project was submitted to how many rounds of user testing
using a representative sample of the public?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) Five

11. Q. Which researcher wrote, “crowdsourcing’s limits are determined by
people’s passion and imagination, which is to say, there aren’t any
limits at all”?
a) Mia Ridge
b) Daren Brabham
c) Jeff Howe
d) Trevor Owens
e) Rose Holley

12. “What matters most now is our imaginations. The opportunity
before us, individually and collectively, is enormous; what we do
with it will be determined largely by how well we are able to
imagine and reward public creativity, participation, and sharing.”
Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
Digital History workshop:
Crowdsourcing in the Humanities and cultural heritage sector
Victoria University of Wellington, 23 April 2013