Aslib Journal of Information Management, Volume 72, Number 2

ebook Crowdsourcing and Collaboration in Digital Humanities · Aslib Journal of Information Management

By Zhao Yuxiang

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What is now called crowdsourcing—the involvement of the general public in undertaking tasks with multiple granularities in the form of an open call—has a longhistory. It is important to note that the difference between the traditional mass collaboration projects and the modern phenomenon of crowdsourcing proposed by Howe (2006) is the use of the Internet and various online computer-mediated communication platforms to distribute tasks amongst large numbers of individuals and interestgroups (Terras, 2016).

Aslib Journal of Information Management, Volume 72, Number 2