Siobhan Leachman (volunteer for Smithsonian...) - Crowdsourcing & how GLAMs encourage
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 2016-12-07

Lightning talks
3:30 - 4.30pm Tuesday 22 November, Main Stage (Soundings)

Siobhan Leachman (volunteer for Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center)

Full title: Crowdsourcing & how GLAMs encourage me to participate

This presentation is based on Siobhan's part of the 'Build the Crowdsourcing Community of Your Dreams' panel at the SXSW 2016 - Art, Science & Inspiration Conference. She will discuss her motivations for participating in GLAM crowdsourcing projects, the strategies cultural institutions can use to encourage volunteers to participate, and the factors she considers before donating her time.

Siobhan volunteers for a wide variety of digital GLAM & Citizen Science crowdsourcing projects including: the Smithsonian Transcription Centre, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, several citizen science & digital humanities projects hosted on Zooniverse, DigiVol with the Atlas of Living Australia, Wikipedia & Wikicommons. She contributed to the Smithsonian Transcription Center Beta. She has written articles and blog posts on her experience, which have been referenced by the "Wall Street Journal," "NBC News" and "Al Jazeera English." Siobhan assisted with the development of www.publicreviewofscience.org by being their first citizen scientist reviewer.