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The "New" Citizen Scientist: Crowdsourcing at the Smithsonian Daniel Davis, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian Mobile Strategies and Initiatives [email protected] @bigenola

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This talk on crowdsourcing at the Smithsonian was presented at the American Alliance for Museums conference in Seattle in May 2014. I am gratefully indebted to Nancy Proctor for the core messages con tainted within!

Transcript of The "New" Citizen Scientist, Crowdsourcing at the Smithsonian

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The "New" Citizen Scientist: !Crowdsourcing at the Smithsonian

!Daniel Davis, Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian Mobile Strategies and Initiatives

[email protected] @bigenola

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the increase and diffusion of knowledge

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5/13/143

Photo: some rights reserved by The Uprooted Photographer

to Recruit the World and enlist collaborators globally

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Putting the Smithsonian

in your hands.

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The Wikipedia of the Physical World

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From headphones

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To microphones

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From we do the talking

Photo courtesy whitney.org

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To we help you do the talking

Photo: Courtesy The Mother of all Trips blog

Chris Anderson, Smithsonian 2.0 conference 24 Jan 2009

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100%

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In your database, attends your events; connected on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or physically in your area

You do not know and cannot contact directly but your community can. You want to convert the network to join the community.

You do not know them. Receives messages via the network

Museum

Community

Network

Crowd

http://amysampleward.org/2011/05/18/crowdsourcing-vs-community-sourcing-whats-the-difference-and-the-opportunity/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/4294119350/

Curating

Producing

Commenting

Sharing

Watching

Photo of crowd, courtesy of PictFactory

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Crowdsourcing

Photo of crowd, courtesy of PictFactory

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Community-sourcing

Photo of crowd, courtesy of PictFactory

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50+ SI Mobile Projects to Date

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Stories from Main Street

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Access American Stories

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Nancy Proctor, [email protected]

Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin Patent Model

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A Healthy Eco-system

Photo of crowd, courtesy of PictFactory

Communities

Crowds

Niche

Markets

Mass Markets

Curating

Producing

Commenting

Sharing

Watching

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PRODUCT OR PROCESS?

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Smithsonian Mobile http://si.edu/mobile #SImobile & #mtogo

Stay in touch.

Daniel Davis [email protected]

@bigenola

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