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Best Practices/Encourage crowdsourcing around PSI
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Outline of the best practice
Encourage crowdsourcing around PSI
Management summary
Crowd sourcing can be an efficient way to increase quality and availability of machine readable data, in particular for cultural heritage institutions. On a policy level, identifying community crowd sourcing projects outside government institutions can also be an indicator of valuable datasets that should be prioritized for open publication.
Challenge
To increase the quality and quantity of machine readable data.
Solution
Using innovative methodologies, such as crowd sourcing, can assist in increasing the quality and availability of open data and open content, in particular for under resourced institutions such as cultural heritage institutions. Allowing crowd sourcing projects which assess, for example, government institution datasets, can also indicate the highest value datasets to be published as a priority
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
Many institutions lack resources necessary to manually go through large collections of unstructured data that has been created ofer the years. By engaging external communities to collaborate on this data it is possible to create more detailed machine readable data supporting a wider range of re-use cases.
Links to the PSI Directive
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
More machine readable open data support a wider range of use-cases in services and applications. We need to build engaged communities and social engagement.
- Many institutions lack resources necessary to manually go through large collections of unstructured data that has been created ofer the years. By engaging external communities to collaborate on this data it is possible to create more detailed machine readable data supporting a wider range of re-use cases.
- More machine readable open data supporting a wider range of use-cases in services and applications.
- Engaged communities / social engagement
What do you need for this Best Practice?
Planning phase
- Identify the exact need first and then seek groups able to support solving that need via crowd sourcing.
- Think of crowd sourcing as another tool to create/improve data sets and think about the phases of your data collection project and where crowd sourcing could best fit in
- Involve stakeholders who could benefit from a free source of certain data sets and have them provide funding in order to sustain crowd sourcing efforts
Implementation phase
- The tasks have to be really small tasks
- Utilize gamification approach
- Use crowdsourcing without the users knowledge e.g. captcha systems to solve micro tasks.
Applicability by other Member States
The approach is applicable to any Member State.