choose website and explore it to answer questions must be 400 500 words
- Choose one of the sites below.
- Ancient Lives – https://www.operationwardiary.org/ (Links to an external site.)
- Planet Hunters – http://planethunters.org/ (Links to an external site.)
- Worm Watch – http://www.wormwatchlab.org (Links to an external site.)
- Trove – https://trove.nla.gov.au/ (Links to an external site.)
- Smithsonian ‘Digital Volunteers’ – https://transcription.si.edu/ (Links to an external site.)
- NYPL Spacetime – http://spacetime.nypl.org/ (Links to an external site.)
- Take a look around the site and try the crowdsourcing task for yourself. Note any positive or negative moments during your experience and think specifically about:
- How easily can you find your way from the front page to starting the task?
- What is the core goal of the project? How well is it communicated by the site?
- What input content or information is provided on the site?
- What tasks does it ask participants to do?
- What outputs are produced?
- How are contributions validated? How does this affect how the information might be useful later?
- Who are their probable audiences?
- Is the site graphic ‘look and feel’ suitable for those audiences?
- Is the ‘call to action’ clear?
- What motivations for starting and/or continuing to participate are supported by the site’s design?
- How are participants rewarded? Does the site communicate the value it places on contributions?
- Write an essay of 400-500 words discussing your responses to some or all of the questions above and connect it to at least one idea from Living in Information chapters 6-8.
BOOK: Living in Formation, Jorge Arango
