Pilot studies are an essential cornerstone of the design of crowdsourcing campaigns, yet
they are often only mentioned in passing in the scholarly literature. A lack of details …

Contemporary methods of preserving cultural heritage rely highly on digitization and
archiving as foundations for develo** various virtual heritage applications. During last two …

Efficient access to large scale video assets, may it be our life memories in our hard drive or a
broadcaster archive which the company is eager to sell, requires content to be conveniently …

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 …

Trust is a broad concept that in many systems is often reduced to user reputation alone.
However, user reputation is just one way to determine trust. The estimation of trust can be …

The cultural heritage sector has embraced social tagging as a way to increase both access
to online content and to engage users with their digital collections. In this article, we build on …

Cultural heritage institutions are employing crowdsourcing techniques to enrich their
collection. However, assessing the quality of crowdsourced annotations is a challenge for …

Typical crowdsourcing tasks ask workers to label images or make relevance judgements, as
a low cost alternative to lab based user studies. More recently, gamification has been …

Crowdsourcing with human-computing games is now a well-established approach to help
solving difficult computational problems (eg Foldit, Phylo). The current strategies used to …

Gathering proper descriptive metadata for multimedia resources is nowadays essential for
effective information processing, recommendation and personalization. And, we still need to …