Optimizing crowdsourcing websites to increase volunteer participation - A case study: What’s on the Menu? New York Public Library

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Optimizing crowdsourcing websites to increase volunteer participation - A case study: What’s on the Menu? New York Public Library

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This paper focuses on a form of crowdsourcing that outsources ‘micro-tasks’ to virtual volunteers, within the context of a clearly defined Digital Humanities project contributing to preservation and research. The success of such projects relies on sufficient volunteer contributions over a period often limited by project budgets and resources. An understanding of website optimization can enable project teams to invite, instruct and incentivize ‘the crowd’ more effectively, and increase volunte...

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2011

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McKinley, Donelle

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9237

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crowdsourcing / design / cultural heritage

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