What is Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage? Crowdsourcing is to take projects created by institutions or organizations and to outsource tasks to the general public. Wikipedia is the most well-known case of crowdsourcing. It typically involves a project generated by a museum, a library, an archive, or a gallery (GLAM). Project designers will digitize large amounts of…
A Librarian’s Approach to Reading a Wikipedia Article: The CRAAP Test
A. Introduction As an academic librarian, I always caution patrons about properly using different types of sources (popular vs. scholarly, peer-reviewed, grey literature, and news sources). With regards to Wikipedia, I don’t discourage them from going there, as I use it all the time. Wikipedia, as a successful crowdsourcing project, has been surrounded by controversy…
