Looking into the Crowd: Understanding the Users of Digital Heritage Collections

2014 Seminar Series / Monday 27 October, 2014

Crowdsourcing and community engagement efforts surrounding digital heritage collections have been heralded as providing new and intricate forms of knowledge exchange, but how much do we really know about users of digital heritage collections, and how can we best understand the impacts of these resources on users? In this talk, Kathryn will present insights from the Oxford Internet Institute’s work on understanding the usage and impact of digitised scholarly resources, which began with a JISC-funded project in 2008 and has since been extended to capture the impacts of crowdsourcing on virtual volunteers.