Review of crowdsourcing projects and how they relate to linked open data
Mattias Djupdahl, Edith Eskor, Östen Jonsson, Mari Runardotter, Raivo Ruusalepp, Njörður Sigurðsson · Epubl LTU · 2013
The objective of this report is twofold. First it presents an overview of crowdsourcing projects in cultural heritage sector and offers an analysis of how the information collected through crowdsourcing has been managed. The report then continues with a presentation of Linked Open Data concepts and ends with a discussion of Linked Open Data and its implications for archives in a cultural heritage setting.The second objective of this report is to also describe the “journey” that we as a project have travelled from the original ideas in the project proposal to the finally agreed action plan.The target audience of this report is primarily memory institutions that plan to engage in crowdsourcing and/or open data projects.