[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

I wonder if anyone has had recent use of crowdsourcing initiatives within their specific museum? I am looking for one or two museums to have an initial 'email chat' with regarding how they approached this, what privacy or ethical issues had to be addressed, whether documents/items were given to

[MCN-L] December LC Digital Preservation newsletter

(Apologies for any duplication) The December issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation newsletter is now available: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201312.pdf In this issue: * Beyond the Scanned Image: Scholarly Uses of Digital Collections * Ten

[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

Krista, The Smithsonian Institution has undertaken a large crowdsourcing project (see The Transcription Center - https://transcription.si.edu/) and the person who is largely overseeing this at the Institution is Ching-Hsien Wang. You may wish to speak with her -- she spoke briefly about this

[MCN-L] Research Project - Crowdsourcing for Museums

The Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands is crowdsourcing cataloguing of the digitization of their collection. Also from the recent MCN Conference: "Digitizing Nature with a Live Audience Speakers: Maarten Heerlien, Kirsten Van Hulsen <