Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement
This piece was originally published in EDUCAUSE review vol. 50, no. 6 (November/December 2015) Read e-content | PDF In 2011, the New York Public Library (NYPL) released 9,000 digitized restaurant menus with “delicious data” that had been “frozen as pixels,” making the menus difficult to search, index, and discover online. Along with the menus, the NYPL launched an interface that asked the public to help transcribe the thousands of menus and the hundreds of thousands… Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement
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