Essays about: "crowdsourcing cultural heritage"
Found 3 essays containing the words crowdsourcing cultural heritage.
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1. Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Technologies for Cultural Heritage : Involvement of Optical Character Recognition Software for Citizen Science in the processes for Crowdsourcing of Ancient Italian Texts.
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM)Abstract : Cultural heritage makes reference to an extremely diverse set of sources. More specifically, historical artifacts as well as intangible elements of a community’s history, pertain to cultural heritage. However, when looking at the conservation, the enrichment, and the divulgation of these elements, the question becomes more complex. READ MORE
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2. The ecology of photography crowdsourcing : metadata, locality, and cultural representation
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och ITAbstract : This study explores the social and cultural implications of photography and metadata crowdsourcing at the level of smaller communities as a means of preserving, rekindling, and representing local culture. A multiple case study approach is used, each case focusing on various instances of photography crowdsourcing both in and outside the digital environment, in order to quantitatively analyse a hand-picked selection of photographic material, its respective metadata, and the social ecosystem. READ MORE
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3. Crowdsourcing cultural heritage metadata through social media gaming
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS)Abstract : Crowdsourcing has been used in the cultural heritage domain for a variety of tasks. One of them is generation of descriptive metadata for digital archives. Gamification offers citizens a more entertaining way to interact with digital collections and generate useful metadata as a side effect of gameplay. READ MORE