Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (short: GLAMs) around the globe are beginning
to explore the potential of crowdsourcing, ie outsourcing specific activities to a community …

Crowdsourcing, or “obtaining information or services by soliciting input from a large number
of people,” is becoming known for the impressive productivity of projects that ask the public …

In the last 15 years, European countries have invested considerable resources to provide e-
government services. Despite of its increasing availability, its level of adoption has not been …

This article argues that digital heritage initiatives, where cultural heritage institutions offer
more interactive possibilities with their digital collections through multimodal platforms and …

Recently, various crowdsourcing initiatives showed that targeted efforts of user communities
result in massive amounts of tags. For example, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and …

Most broadcasters have accumulated large audio and video archives stretching back over
many decades. For example the BBC World Service radio archive includes around 70,000 …

The Palgrave Pivot series publishes short-form monographs on topics at the intersection of
nineteenth-century studies and the digital humanities. Partnering with the NINES Center …

The proliferation of digital technologies has changed the way we perceive of and use
audiovisual archives and their holdings. As Rick Prelinger, founder of the online collection …

The purpose of this study was to examine user tags that describe digitized archival
collections in the field of humanities. A collection of 8,310 tags from a digital portal …

The availability of social tags has greatly enhanced access to information. Tag clouds have
emerged as a new" social" way to find and visualize information, providing both one-click …