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Transcript of Crowdsourcing in Finland
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Majlis Bremer-Laamanen, directorKonstanz 25th May 2014
Crowdsourcing in Finland
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Crowdsourcing clippings
- Newspapers 1771-1910- Journals 1810-1910- Ephemera 1810-1944
http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
How to awake interest?
• platform makes using digital collections easier• As usable as possible• Benefit in the form of own scrapbook with personally
collected clippings• Clippings also searchable by all users
• Clippings can be shared with interest groups inother social medias
• hope to invite new users by opening the service for f.ex. schools, researchers and interest groups
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
From earlier co-operation to Digitalkoot
The National Library of Finland• Participated in game for text correction in 2011-
12 with the company Microtask• Already then the Library wanted to see if there
was demand for crowdsourcing of clippings, likearticles, pictures, advertisements from nespapers,journals and ephemera
New project• The content of collections in fokus• Financing from European union social funds• ready in April, one of the first crowdsourcing
moduls in the world for article clipping 14.1.1890 Uusi Suometar
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Users I
enquiry in the Historical NewspaperLibrary
231 answers of which 20 notearlier used the NewspaperLibrary
The typical user used the materialoften, 1-7 times per weekPositive: 22 of the answerers sharedalready our via social mediaUsers age profile is relatively high, butdespite of it 160 users were linked toseveral social media and only 78 didnot use socia media
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Users II
Results:User want to share what they are doing – they want toco-operate via social media or function via the interfaceUsers want to have their own private page, with theirown markingsPlatform must be easy to useUsers must be able to register also outside the socialmedia
20.6.1835 Sanan Saattaja Wiipurista
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Project
koncept for crowdsourcing platform, both fromuser and technical perspectivePartner: fine tuning of the modeltender 2012January 2013: contract with companiesGofore/Evident. ScrumBan (agile) methodwith both companiesThe first alpha version ready in June 2013The graphical company Idean in the project
Suomalainen WirallinenLehti 19.6.1903
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Free text searchComputer or tablettYour address in the social media functions as login, as well as an address on our siteWhat you ever want to search for: family history,
home town and all other interests ...
Platform
Ephemera: clippings
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Digitalkoot – clippings: BrowsingGoogle orhttp://digi.lib.helsinki.fi
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Digitalkoot – clippings: Newspapers - search
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Digitalkoot – clippings:
The result is here:• The storm Oscar in Dec 13 shut down
the electricity for thousands of households
• This paper comes as an electronicversion to our centre as a print PDF file with all metadata. This is transformed to same int METS formatthat we use.
• This newspapers i available at the Library and the other 6 depositlibraries in Finland.
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Digitalkoot – clippings: Login
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Digitalkoot – clippings: clipping and metadata
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
You can make comments, anduse several search words.
You can also pick ready-madeclippings on your own page
and add more.
Digitalkoot – clippings: ready & comments
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Digitalkoot –clippings: search for clippings
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
• You have your own Scrapbook.The clippings made by you are onthe same page.
• You can share clippings via socialmedia.
Digitalkoot –clippings: Scrapbook
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Forward towards Digitalkoot – ”Theme search”Forward towards Digitalkoot – ”Theme search”Forward towards Digitalkoot – ”Theme search”
• ”Ordered” clippings about a certain theme• Ordering f.ex. by media publishers, researchers, companies, schools (teachers), clubs…• Content in active use• New themes appearing• Information of users’ needs and interests• The never-ending possibilities of the content > reuse, again and again
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Happy summertime!From the clippings.
Summer in Helsinki in 1910
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THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND – Centre for Preservation and Digitisation
Thank you !