The Practical Experience and Enlightenment of Foreign Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing Projects

Expand
  • School of Government, Beijing Normal University,Beijing ,100875

Online published: 2021-07-21

Abstract

Abstract: [Purpose/significance] This article selects 23 digital humanities crowdsourcing projects initiated by foreign library and information institutions, sorts out the project practice, and provides reference for China's library and information institutions to carry out digital humanities crowdsourcing projects. [Method/process] Based on the perspective of project process, the practical experience and characteristics of the projects are refined and summarized from thefour key links of project publicity, planning, testing and implementation, such as targeted publicity, focus on volunteerselection and incentive, flexible platform selection, project testing, reasonable auditing mechanism, and strengtheningcopyright risk control. [Result/conclusion] Combined with the practice of domestic projects, the paper summarizes thescheme and measures of carrying out digital humanities crowdsourcing projects in domestic academic circles, such as improvingtheprojectplanningandimplementationprocess,takinganumberofmeasurestoensurethequalityofcrowdsourcing,raisingawarenesstodealwithcopyright risks, paying attention to the willingness of volunteers to participate, etc.

Cite this article

Liu Xiaojuan Liu Huiping Pan Yinrong .

The Practical Experience and Enlightenment of Foreign Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing Projects

[J]. Information and Documentation Services, 2021 , 42(4) : 104 -112 . DOI: DOI:10.12154/j.qbzlgz.2021.04.013

Outlines

/