Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage Robert Davies Cyprus University of Technology Final Report 30 December, 2020 0 Contents Executive summary ..................................................................................... 5 1 Introduction and methodology ................................................................. 7 1.1 Surveys .................................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Interviews ............................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.3 Workshops .............................................................................................................................................................. 8 1.4 Webinar .................................................................................................................................................................. 8 2. Findings .................................................................................................. 9 2.1 Europeana ............................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.2 National aggregators ............................................................................................................................................ 11 2.3 Thematic and domain aggregators ....................................................................................................................... 12 2.4 External initiatives ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Geographical scope .................................................................................................................................................... 15 Funding, human resources and sustainability ............................................................................................................ 15 Aims, activities and tasks ............................................................................................................................................ 16 Technical platform/infrastructure/submission process ............................................................................................. 16 Collections .................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Contributors ................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Data models, metadata and protocols ....................................................................................................................... 18 Quality ........................................................................................................................................................................ 19 Impact Assessment ..................................................................................................................................................... 19 Licencing ..................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Wider aggregation ecosystems .................................................................................................................................. 20 Citizen Science ............................................................................................................................................................ 20 GLAM-WIKI ................................................................................................................................................................. 20 3 Conclusions and proposals ...................................................................... 21 Conclusions ............................................................................................... 21 Proposals ................................................................................................... 23 1. Aggregation ...................................................................................................................................................... 23 2. Guidance and standardisation. ........................................................................................................................ 23 3. Segmenting guidance ....................................................................................................................................... 23 4. Resourcing the work ......................................................................................................................................... 23 5. 3D modelling .................................................................................................................................................... 23 6. Quality .............................................................................................................................................................. 23 1 Annex 1 – Survey of National Aggregators .................................................. 24 Respondents ............................................................................................................................................................... 24 1.1 How many DCH crowdsourcing initiatives are you aware of in your country (including those organised internationally or by Europeana)? ................................................................................................................... 24 1.2. Have the results of any of these initiatives been ingested by the national aggregator? (Content and Metadata) ......................................................................................................................................................... 27 1.3. How many items from these crowdsourcing initiatives are currently held by your national aggregation repository? ....................................................................................................................................................... 28 1.4. How many items from these crowdsourcing initiatives have been ingested from you by Europeana? ......... 29 1.5. What are the main types of content involved? ................................................................................................ 30 1.6. What factors (if any) stand in the way of ingesting from crowdsourcing activities? ....................................... 31 1.7. Would you be willing to participate in a short follow-up interview about this subject? ................................. 33 Annex 2 – Survey of Thematic and domain aggregators .............................. 34 Respondents ............................................................................................................................................................... 34 2.1. How many DCH crowdsourcing initiatives are you aware of in your domain/thematic area (including those organised internationally or by Europeana)? ................................................................................................... 34 2.2 Have the results of any of these initiatives been ingested by your domain/thematic aggregator? ................ 35 2.3. How many items from these crowdsourcing initiatives are currently held by your domain/thematic aggregation repository? ................................................................................................................................... 35 2.4. How many items from these crowdsourcing initiatives have been ingested from you by Europeana? ......... 35 2.5. What are the main types of content involved? ................................................................................................ 36 2.6. What factors (if any) stand in the way of ingesting from crowdsourcing activities? ....................................... 36 2.7. Would you be willing to participate in a short follow-up interview about this subject? ................................. 36 Annex 3 – survey of external crowdsourcing projects and activities ............ 37 3.1. Respondents ..................................................................................................................................................... 37 3.2. What is the geographic scope of your crowdsourcing project? ....................................................................... 41 3.3. What were the funding sources for your crowdsourcing project? .................................................................. 43 3.4. What is/was the duration of your crowdsourcing project? ............................................................................. 44 3.5. What are/were the main aims of your crowdsourcing project? ...................................................................... 46 3.7. What type of organisation facilitates/coordinates the project? ...................................................................... 50 3.8. What was the mode of collection? .................................................................................................................. 52 3.9. What tasks were crowdsourced? ....................................................................................................................