Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities: An Action Research on the Shengxuanhuai Manuscript Transcription

Zhao, Yuxiang; Zhang, Xuanhui; Song, Xiaokang

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Title

Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities: An Action Research on the Shengxuanhuai Manuscript Transcription

Author(s)

• Zhao, Yuxiang
• Zhang, Xuanhui
• Song, Xiaokang

Issue Date

2018

Keyword(s)

• crowdsourcing
• digital humanities
• Shengxuanhuai manuscript transcription
• action research

Abstract

In recent years, there has been an emerging trend in the GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to leverage crowdsourcing to improve the collection, organization, and evaluation of valuable resources. Although a se-ries of notable crowdsourcing projects in the digital humanities have been launched worldwide, there are few academic studies on investigating the im-plementation and evaluation of such cases. To fill up the research gap, this study aims at conducting a field exploration on the real case called the Shengxuanhuai Manuscript Transcription Initiative (Transcribe Sheng for short). In this poster, action research will be carried out to explore the vari-ous stages of Transcribe Sheng project. Our attempts may shed light on the design and evaluation principles of the crowdsourcing in the digital humani-ties.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2018 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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Copyright 2018 is held by Yuxiang Zhao, Xuanhui Zhang, Xiaokang Song. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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