From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation: the state of the art in collaboration, access, and inclusion for cultural heritage institutions

多年来，众包已经帮助提供了一个在线参与文化遗产收藏的框架。随着越来越多的文化机构要求公众承担转录、分类和描述数字化馆藏等任务，人们对这些任务使观众更深入地了解文化遗产的能力的期望也在不断提高。共同创造和发展新的所有权和作者模式对那些习惯于按照自己的条件与馆藏进行互动的机构提出了重大挑战。随着众包从一项实验性活动转变为需要与实体和其他在线推广活动更紧密、更系统地整合的活动，各机构正在努力应对其组织实践面临的相关挑战。该项目汇集了代表数字化参与文化遗产的一系列方法的从业者和研究人员，通过“图书冲刺”在一周内完成一本书。本着数字化参与的精神，在经过一段时间的公众评议之前，这本书不会被视为“最终版”。这本书将作为开放获取出版物免费提供。该项目还将召集该领域的领导人参加一个研讨会，就未来需要通过筹资呼吁解决的最紧迫问题征求专家意见，并将结果发表在由项目负责人和合作组织编写的白皮书中。该项目以该领域的三位创新者的专业知识为基础，他们都来自世界领先的机构，他们正在为英国和美国的文化遗产收藏的众包和数字化参与设定标准。我们邀请了来自不同领域的专家从业者和研究人员参加我们的活动和出版物，以增强我们应对挑战的能力，从与边缘化和被剥夺权利的社区合作，到加强跨渠道访问和挑战组织实践。通过收集、消化和分享众包和数字化参与方面的最佳实践，该项目将有助于使现有平台和活动的价值最大化。通过参与图书冲刺、研讨会和在线讨论创建的支持网络将帮助组织在应对该领域的技术和文化变化时保持以受众为中心。该项目主要解决了本次会议的“数字化参与”主题，但也涉及机器学习和人工智能以及基于集合的数据自动创建。跨领域主题“数字工具和方法解决的当代挑战”的重点是道德框架，以解决数字参与、维持与边缘群体的关系和发展活动以及合作工作模式方面的不平等问题，这对该项目尤为重要。从“数字学术的领导力和技能发展”的主题出发，建设数字能力和支持数字化转型的领导者，这些问题对该领域的长期生存能力也至关重要。

Crowdsourcing has helped to provide a framework for online participation with, and around, cultural heritage collections for several years. As more cultural institutions ask members of the public to undertake tasks such as transcription, classification and description of digitised collections, expectations about the ability of these tasks to engage audiences more deeply with cultural heritage are rising. Co-creation and developing new models of ownership and authorship present significant challenges for institutions used to framing interactions with collections on their own terms. As crowdsourcing moves from an experimental activity to something that requires closer and more systematic integration with physical and other online outreach activities, institutions are grappling with the associated challenges to their organisational practices. This project brings together practitioners and researchers representing a range of approaches to digitally-enabled participation in cultural heritage to write a book in a week through a 'book sprint'. In the spirit of digitally-enabled participation, the book will not be considered 'final' until it has been through a period of public comment. The book will be freely available as an open access publication. The project will also assemble leaders in the field for a workshop that captures expert views on the most pressing issues to address through future funding calls, with the results published in a white paper written by the PI and Co-Is.This project builds on the expertise of three innovators in the field, each at a world-leading institution, who are setting the standards for crowdsourcing and digitally-enabled participation around cultural heritage collections in the UK and US. We have invited a range of expert practitioners and researchers from different fields to participate in our events and publications, enhancing our ability to address challenges from working with marginalised and disenfranchised communities to enhancing access across multiple channels and challenging organisational practice. In collecting, digesting and sharing best practice in crowdsourcing and digitally-enabled participation, this project will help maximise the value of existing platforms and activities. The support network created through participation in the book sprint, workshop and online discussion will help organisations stay audience-focused as they respond to technical and cultural changes in the field. This project primarily addresses the 'digitally-enabled participation' theme of this call, but it also touches on Machine Learning and AI and the automatic creation of data based on collections. The focus of the cross-cutting theme 'Contemporary challenges addressed by digital tools and methods' on ethical frameworks to address inequalities in digital engagement, sustaining relationships and developing activities with marginalised groups and cooperative working models are particularly important for this project. Questions of building digital capacity and supporting leaders of digital transformation from the 'Leadership and skills development in digital scholarship' theme are also crucial to the long-term viability of this field.