Metadata quality is made up of many aspects, but one principle that receives little attention is ensuring accurate spelling. According to Beall (2003), there are nine common spelling mistakes. Error category Definition Example Misstrokes errors traced to inaccurate motion of the finger [None given] Transposition errors two consecutive letters in a word are interchanged typing … [Read more…]
On 9th April, 2013, the University of Oxford Internet Institute held a one-day workshop on Arts and Humanities crowdsourcing projects paying close attention to how they affected users, digital curation, public engagement, and knowledge sharing. According to Dunn and Hedges (2012), crowdsourcing is “the process of leveraging public participation in or contributions to projects and … [Read more…]
During the second day of the conference, participants continued to explore computer-driven and crowdsourced approaches to tag audiovisual assets. Although there exists a tension between these two methods, many participants argued for a combination of both. In spite of the challenges, solutions are already underway and were introduced as case studies at the conference. In … [Read more…]