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Resource: The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects

By the Editors | August 7, 2012

To sum up my series of posts on different considerations for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage projects I thought it would be helpful to lay out a set of questions to ask when developing or evaluating projects. I think if a project has good answers to each of these four genres of questions it is well on its way toward success.

Four Areas of Questioning

Human Computation 

Wisdom of Crowds 

Scaffolding Users 

Motivating Users 

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